![]() “Everything one imagines in the way of genius and fun. “Wells imagined both dark and bright futures because his creed allowed both while promising neither, and because the eighty years of his life were years of immense intellectual and technological accomplishment and appalling violence and destruction.” -Ursula K. ![]() Wells was a visionary, a man of science with an enduring literary touch, and his originality and inventiveness are fully on display in this essential collection. He described the spectacle of space travel decades before men set foot on the moon. He envisioned a sky filled with airplanes before Orville Wright ever left the ground. Wells’s genius and reintroduces readers to his singular talent for making the unbelievable seem utterly plausible. ![]() Le Guin’s selection of twenty-six stories showcases H. ![]()
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