"The Country of the Blind" and Other Science-fiction StoriesWith the publication of his first novel, 'The Time Machine' (1895), Herbert George Wells established himself as the foremost science-fiction writer of his time.This entertaining collection contains six of his most famous shorter works in that category. - 'The Country of the Blind'; 'The Star'; 'The New Accelerator'; 'The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes'; 'Under the knife'; 'The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper'. |
Contents
The Star | 31 |
The Remarkable Case of Davidsons Eyes | 53 |
The Queer Story of Brownlows Newspaper | 74 |
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Accelerator Aldebaran asked beautiful blind Bogota brighter Brownlow chloroform colour Country coup d'état cried darkness Davidson earth electrometer Evan O'Hara eyes face falling Federal Board feel feet felt Folkestone forty years ahead Gibberne Gibberne's Glaucon glow going grew Haddon's hand hear heard heavens hither houses imagination knew Langham Place laughed light llamas looked meadows Medina-saroté mind moon mountain nearer Neptune never newspaper night Nunez old Yacob paper Parascotopetl passed path Pedro perceived phosphorescence planet queer Queer Story realised rocks round rushed Sandgate science fiction seemed shone shouted side sight slopes snow solar system sort sound space spade speck star stared stood story Strand Magazine strange struck stuff suddenly Sussex Court swift talked tell thing thought thousand told turned valley vast vision voice walked wall Wells's World Set Free