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Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) known as H. G. Wells was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels, and is called the father of science fiction, along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) known as H. G. Wells was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels, and is called the father of science fiction, along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) known as H. G. Wells was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels, and is called the father of science fiction, along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) known as H. G. Wells was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels, and is called the father of science fiction, along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) known as H. G. Wells was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels, and is called the father of science fiction, along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) known as H. G. Wells was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels, and is called the father of science fiction, along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) known as H. G. Wells was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels, and is called the father of science fiction, along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) known as H. G. Wells was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels, and is called the father of science fiction, along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.

The story opens aboard a train, when an unwell-looking man strikes up a conversation with the narrator when he sees him reading a book about dreams. The white-faced man says that he has little time for dream analysis because, he says, his dreams are killing him.He goes on to tell how he has been experiencing consecutive dreams of an unspecified future time in which he is a major political figure who has given up his position to live with a younger woman on the island of Capri. The dreamer describes the island in detail, despite never having visited it, which impresses the narrator, who has actually been to Capri. The dreamer tells how his dream idyll comes to an end. While dancing, he is approached by an envoy from his own country who implores him to return and resume his old role before his successor brings about a war. However, this would mean leaving the woman he loves, and his dream self chooses love over duty.For three weeks of dreams, the solicitor is present at the collapse of the paradisical island of Capri and the future world, while war draws closer and flights of military aircraft are described flying overhead. Global war finally erupts, and his dream life ends in worldwide catastrophe and personal tragedy: the dreamer sees his love killed and experiences his own death. At the very end of the story the protagonist reveals that despite being killed in his dream, he nevertheless carried on dreaming even as his body was being ravaged by "great birds that fought and tore."

Worlds of terror and awe await you in A Dream of Armageddon, a comprehensive collection of uncanny classics from science fiction master H.G. Wells. Blending science and the supernatural, the thirty-one stories collected here span a full half-century of Wells’ distinguished literary career and express the same scintillating sense of wonder that makes The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and his other speculative novels timeless tales of the fantastic.There are weird and wondrous stories here to suit every taste, all shaped by the visionary imagination that made Wells an incomparable fantasist who could pursue the most illogical premise to its logical extreme. These gems of light and dark fantasy include:“The Flowering of the Strange Orchid.” A new species of flower reveals an insatiable and deadly thirst for life.“The Plattner Story.” A chemistry experiment goes terribly wrong and strands a man in an inverted dimension teeming with lost souls.“The Moth.” A scientist is driven to insanity by a strange moth that only he can see.“The Stolen Body.” A man projects his consciousness outside of his body, unaware that something utterly malignant is waiting to take its place.“Pollock and the Porroh Man.” A supernatural curse becomes a physiologic nightmare for a victim of native magic.“The Inexperienced Ghost.” A man who was weak and ineffectual in life makes a poor excuse for a spook in the afterlife.As magical today as when they were first published, the stories inA Dream of Armageddonaremasterpieces of the marvelous and macabre.

Worlds of terror and awe await you in A Dream of Armageddon, a comprehensive collection of uncanny classics from science fiction master H.G. Wells. Blending science and the supernatural, the thirty-one stories collected here span a full half-century of Wells’ distinguished literary career and express the same scintillating sense of wonder that makes The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and his other speculative novels timeless tales of the fantastic.There are weird and wondrous stories here to suit every taste, all shaped by the visionary imagination that made Wells an incomparable fantasist who could pursue the most illogical premise to its logical extreme. These gems of light and dark fantasy include:“The Flowering of the Strange Orchid.” A new species of flower reveals an insatiable and deadly thirst for life.“The Plattner Story.” A chemistry experiment goes terribly wrong and strands a man in an inverted dimension teeming with lost souls.“The Moth.” A scientist is driven to insanity by a strange moth that only he can see.“The Stolen Body.” A man projects his consciousness outside of his body, unaware that something utterly malignant is waiting to take its place.“Pollock and the Porroh Man.” A supernatural curse becomes a physiologic nightmare for a victim of native magic.“The Inexperienced Ghost.” A man who was weak and ineffectual in life makes a poor excuse for a spook in the afterlife.As magical today as when they were first published, the stories inA Dream of Armageddonaremasterpieces of the marvelous and macabre.

Worlds of terror and awe await you in A Dream of Armageddon, a comprehensive collection of uncanny classics from science fiction master H.G. Wells. Blending science and the supernatural, the thirty-one stories collected here span a full half-century of Wells’ distinguished literary career and express the same scintillating sense of wonder that makes The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and his other speculative novels timeless tales of the fantastic.There are weird and wondrous stories here to suit every taste, all shaped by the visionary imagination that made Wells an incomparable fantasist who could pursue the most illogical premise to its logical extreme. These gems of light and dark fantasy include:“The Flowering of the Strange Orchid.” A new species of flower reveals an insatiable and deadly thirst for life.“The Plattner Story.” A chemistry experiment goes terribly wrong and strands a man in an inverted dimension teeming with lost souls.“The Moth.” A scientist is driven to insanity by a strange moth that only he can see.“The Stolen Body.” A man projects his consciousness outside of his body, unaware that something utterly malignant is waiting to take its place.“Pollock and the Porroh Man.” A supernatural curse becomes a physiologic nightmare for a victim of native magic.“The Inexperienced Ghost.” A man who was weak and ineffectual in life makes a poor excuse for a spook in the afterlife.As magical today as when they were first published, the stories inA Dream of Armageddonaremasterpieces of the marvelous and macabre.