I just watched this for the 1st time since I saw it on TV in grade school. Rabbit ears, I was the controller, commercial filled, no cable, while my babysitters Mom was drinking a Tab and smoking Virginia Slims.
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while i feel it puts an overemphasis on the negative and is misleading, this video essay on Wells' politics is still thought provoking. #HGWells #Politics #Socialism #ScienceFiction
The Dangerous Ideas of H.G. Wells
Luen parhaillaan H. G. Wellsin Maailmojen sotaa (alkuteos 1898). Täällähän on jo lonkeroivat avaruusoliot, lentävät lautaset ja tripodit... Kaikki tämä brittiläisessä maalaismiljöössä.
RESEÑA
La víspera de la guerra, el famoso astrónomo Ogilvy observa unas extrañas luces en el planeta Marte, y comparte el hallazgo con el protagonista de la historia. Las extrañas explosiones que se suceden más tarde descubren unos extraños cilindros venidos del espacio donde llegan los marcianos. En cuestión de pocos días toman Inglaterra a bordo de unas extrañas naves metálicas en forma de trípodes y exterminan a todo ser viviente con sus rayos calóricos y unas extrañas nubes de polvo negro. ¿Está la humanidad perdida o todavía queda una última esperanza?
“La Guerra de los Mundos”, de H.G. Wells, fue escrita entre 1895 y 1897, con el aire científico característico de la época. Resulta fascinante comprobar que donde no llegaba la ciencia lo hacía la fantasía, en una narración que pone los pelos de punta incluso tantos años después, por lo que hay que imaginarse la impresión que causó en los lectores de la época. La lucha del hombre por sobrevivir, la peculiar fisonomía de los marcianos y, sobre todo, la sorprendente empatía que muestra cuando reflexiona sobre la cuestión de invasores e invadidos.
THE WONDERLAND IMAGINATION THEATRE
H.G. Wells' The Time Machine
1973 Canada pressing
Another example of one of those records you buy just because the cover is so awesome.
No doubt this will end in a frame and get added to the already heavily populated studio wall of badassery.
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@trainguyrom @HeavenlyPossum #HGWells really nailed the speculating part of Speculative Fiction.
Also interesting: The Shape of Things to Come, The War in the Air, probably many more (the guy was incredibly prolific)
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@daedalean @GreenFire
Have you read HG Wells' "The Time Machine"? Billionaires are the Eloi and the rest of us, Morlocks.
#hgwells
#thetimemachine
4-min clip from the 1997 Robert Zemeckis #film 'Contact' based on the 1985 #novel by Carl Sagan.
Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jody Foster) enters the great #gyroscopic #SpaceTime #machine, opening up a #wormhole #portal. #Gyroscope devices have factored heavily in #SciFi #movies & #books, going all the way back to #HGWells & #AlfredJarry, pre-1900.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scBY3cVyeyA https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(1997_American_film)
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#TimeTravelAuthors & #SciFi fans know that various styles of #gyrosocopic devices have stood in for #TimeMachines going all the way back to #HGWells's original 'The Time Machine' of 1895 (see 'Contact' movie of 1997). #Quantum #physicists have proposed colossal rotating #cylinders, and other #theories employing #wormholes — macro to micro — again, #spinning #mechanical #systems. @KronoMoon remains open to all manner of #TimeTravel approaches, including via #quantum #signals or #consciousness.
"Das vorliegende und hier besprochene Werk gilt nicht umsonst als Klassiker. Was nicht nur am leicht lesbaren Schreibstil liegt. Es geht um die Auswirkungen von technischem Fortschritt und Wissenschaft auf die Moral. Ist wirklich alles erlaubt, was technisch machbar ist?"
www.literatopia.deDer Unsichtbare (H. G. Wells)Das vorliegende und hier besprochene Werk gilt nicht umsonst als Klassiker. Was nicht nur am leicht lesbaren Schreibstil liegt. Es geht um die Auswirkungen von technischem Fortschritt und Wissenschaft auf die Moral. Ist wirklich alles erlaubt, was technisch machbar ist?
So, some of you may remember that on May 14th I posted that I had found a postcard sent by H.G. Wells to his wife and that I'd sent scans to the H.G. Wells Society to see if it could be evaluated. I heard back last night. The expert wishes to remain anonymous, but has given permission for the details of the evaluation to be shared. Below are the scans that I sent of the front and back of the card. The card shows a train at the top of the Brünig Pass in Switzerland... 1/11 #HGWells #Postcards
