H.G.Wells
Friday, July 01, 2005
H.G. Wells
So last night Thursday 6/30/05 I was at Barnes and Nobles looking around and I found this great magazine called Rue Morgue that deals with Horror in culture and entertaiment.
They had a nice write up about H.G. Wells. So I thought I'd do a fast version of what the story covered. The good, the bad and the ugly.
The good. The man was the forefather of SCI-FI/Horror genre. Stories he did.
The Time Machine (1895)
The Island Of Doctor Moreau(1896)
The Invisible Man(1897)
War Of The Worlds(1898)
The Food Of The Gods(1904)
Bunch of short stories...
The Red Room(1896)
The Plattner(1896
The Porroh Man(1927)
In The Abyss(1896)
You might be able to find his shorts in a copy of Thirty Strang Stories:A Classic Collection of Fantastic and Mysterious Tales..Out of print but might be able to find it used.
The Bad....A socialist, feminist, social engineer and atheist. He did political writings too. I don't have a problem with the atheist part.
The ugly..He supported eugenics. That populations can and should be controled and some should be eliminated. That would be the weak and sensual. The perverse, degenerate, impure, unstable, handicapped, ignorant and so on. An d on the personal level he was considered selfish and difficult. Unfaithful to both wifes and abusive in general.
All info came from the story in Rue Magazine. The writer is Michael Coren and James Grainger. For more info keep an eye out for the reissueing of Michael Coren's 1993 biography The Invisible Man: The Life and Liberties of H.G. Wells.
My perosnal thoughts...You remember their being lots of stories/movies you seen growing up? But you did not know or care to know at that time who was behind those stories. Then years later you read a story like I did piecing it all together. The name H.G.Wells was one that just hung in the air but I did not know all the major works he was involved in. The stories I know are the War of the Worlds, Island of Doc Morue and the Invisible Man. All these stories have left marks on my mind. I think War of the Worlds helped to form my interest in end of the world films. The death of humanity either by our own hands, aliens or massive storms.
What is also interesting is his personal views and the effects of the Industrial Revolution and scientific Rationalism on his development as a writer. I' want to read more about him before I make any more comments. So Thats all for today folks. More later..
Jason
H.G. Wells
So last night Thursday 6/30/05 I was at Barnes and Nobles looking around and I found this great magazine called Rue Morgue that deals with Horror in culture and entertaiment.
They had a nice write up about H.G. Wells. So I thought I'd do a fast version of what the story covered. The good, the bad and the ugly.
The good. The man was the forefather of SCI-FI/Horror genre. Stories he did.
The Time Machine (1895)
The Island Of Doctor Moreau(1896)
The Invisible Man(1897)
War Of The Worlds(1898)
The Food Of The Gods(1904)
Bunch of short stories...
The Red Room(1896)
The Plattner(1896
The Porroh Man(1927)
In The Abyss(1896)
You might be able to find his shorts in a copy of Thirty Strang Stories:A Classic Collection of Fantastic and Mysterious Tales..Out of print but might be able to find it used.
The Bad....A socialist, feminist, social engineer and atheist. He did political writings too. I don't have a problem with the atheist part.
The ugly..He supported eugenics. That populations can and should be controled and some should be eliminated. That would be the weak and sensual. The perverse, degenerate, impure, unstable, handicapped, ignorant and so on. An d on the personal level he was considered selfish and difficult. Unfaithful to both wifes and abusive in general.
All info came from the story in Rue Magazine. The writer is Michael Coren and James Grainger. For more info keep an eye out for the reissueing of Michael Coren's 1993 biography The Invisible Man: The Life and Liberties of H.G. Wells.
My perosnal thoughts...You remember their being lots of stories/movies you seen growing up? But you did not know or care to know at that time who was behind those stories. Then years later you read a story like I did piecing it all together. The name H.G.Wells was one that just hung in the air but I did not know all the major works he was involved in. The stories I know are the War of the Worlds, Island of Doc Morue and the Invisible Man. All these stories have left marks on my mind. I think War of the Worlds helped to form my interest in end of the world films. The death of humanity either by our own hands, aliens or massive storms.
What is also interesting is his personal views and the effects of the Industrial Revolution and scientific Rationalism on his development as a writer. I' want to read more about him before I make any more comments. So Thats all for today folks. More later..
Jason