Ursula K.Le Guin's delightfully selected best stories of H.G.Wells. There are 26 stories in the book. Le Guin notes she selected stories for excellence. It is impossible to admire a visionary who invented the word 'aeroplane', and who also predicted tank warfare and biological warfare. Interesting and very amusing to read.

INDEX:

Part One: Visionary Science Fiction:

A Slip Under the Microscope
The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eye
The Plattner Story
Under the Knife
The Crystal Egg
The New Accelerator
The Stolen Body

Part Two: Technological and Predictive Science Fiction
The Argonauts of the Air
In the Abyss
The Star
The Land Ironclads
A Dream of Armageddon

Part Three: Horror Stories

The Lord of the Dynamos
The Valley of Spiders

Part Four: Fantasies

The Story of the Late Mr Elvesham
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
The Magic Shop
Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland
The Door in the Wall
The Presence by the Fire

Part Five: Fables

A Vision of Judgment
The Story of the Last Trump
The Wild Asses of the Devil
Answer to Prayer

Part Six: Psycho-Social Science Fiction

The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper
The Country of the Blind
About the Author (anonymous)

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