Posts tagged novel
War of the Worlds
Feb 8th @ 6:00AM
Another good one from H.G. Wells. Published in 1898, it may not be the first book to ever exploit the idea of interplanetary travel or the now cliche alien invasion. But it is easily the most well known and the many themes set forth in War can be seen throughout the last and current century. Taking for example Independance Day or The Day the Earth Stood Still. Both movies, separated from each other by almost 50 years, show humanity as helpless [...]
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Feb 4th @ 6:00AM
1865, the end of the war between the states, as well as the original publishing year for Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne. I always thought it was ‘A Journey’, but it is not, so from here on out, don’t say it like that, you’ll be harshly corrected by not only me, but your conscience saying how much of an idiot you are for saying it wrong.
This was quite different from Wells’ The Time Machine, mostly due to the [...]
Really Discovering, The Time Machine
Jan 22nd @ 6:00AM
This will be the first in a long series of reviews covering what I hope to be many of the great and classic SF novels. It started when I wrote my Sci-Fi Masters post. I’ve read some of them, am familiar with most of them and their stories, but am not as thoroughly acquainted with the actual reading of them as I like. So when I saw a bunch of Verne and Wells sitting on the bookshelf at the [...]
