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Science Fiction: Volume 2 ('The Invisible Man', 'When the Sleeper Wakes' and 'The Shape of Things to Come')(Phoenix Giants) - Softcover

Wells, H. G.

 
9781857994346: Science Fiction: Volume 2 ('The Invisible Man', 'When the Sleeper Wakes' and 'The Shape of Things to Come')(Phoenix Giants)

Synopsis

Written in the age of technological revolution,the novels included in this edition combine the mundane with the extraordinary to unnerving effect:the pre dictions of H G Wells fiction have often already become our late twentieth- century facts.

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About the Author

HG Wells was born in Bromley, Kent in 1866. After working as a draper's apprentice and pupil-teacher, he won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in 1884, studying under T H Huxley. He was awarded a first-class honours degree in biology and resumed teaching but had to retire after a kick from an ill-natured pupil afflicted his kidneys. He worked in poverty in London as a crammer while experimenting in journalism and stories. It was with The Time Machine (1895) that he had his real breakthrough.

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