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H. G. Wells Science and Philosophy the Time
H. G. Wells Science and Philosophy Friday 28 September Imperial College, London Saturday 29 September 2007 Library, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London Programme ____________________________________________________________________________ Friday 28 September 2007 – Room 116, Electrical Engineering Building, Imperial College, South Kensington, London 2.00-2.25 Arrivals 2.25-2.30 Welcome (Dr Steven McLean) 2.30-3.30 Papers: Panel 1: - Science in the Early Wells Chair: Dr Steven McLean (Nottingham Trent University) Dr Dan Smith (University of London) ‘Materiality and Utopia: The presence of scientific and philosophical themes in The Time Machine’ Matthew Taunton (London Consortium) ‘Wells and the New Science of Town Planning’ 3.30-4.00 Refreshments 4.00-5.00 Plenary: Stephen Baxter (Vice-President, H. G. Wells Society) ‘The War of the Worlds: A Controlling Metaphor for the 20th Century’ Saturday 29 September 2007 - Library. Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London 10.30-10.55 Arrivals 10.55-11.00 Welcome (Mark Egerton, Hon. General Secretary, H. G. Wells Society) 11.00-12.00 Papers: Panel 2: - Education, Science and the Future Chair: Professor Patrick Parrinder (University of Reading) Professor John Huntington (University of Illinois, Chicago) ‘Wells, Education, and the Idea of Literature’ Anurag Jain (Queen Mary, London) ‘From Noble Lies to the War of Ideas: The Influence of Plato on Wells’s Utopianism and Propaganda’ 12.00-1.30 Lunch (Please note that, although coffee and biscuits are freely available, lunch is not included in this year’s conference fee. However, there are a number of local eateries within the vicinity). 1.30- 2.30 Papers: Panel 3: Wells, Modernism and Reality Chair: Professor Bernard Loing (Chair, H. -
H.G. Wells, El Padre De La Ciencia Ficción
- CLÁSICOS AL RESCATE - H.G. Wells, el padre de la ciencia ficción Herbert George Wells en 1920 1.- Introducción: Wells es uno de los escritores más célebres que dado la ciencia ficción y, sin embargo, es uno de los menos conocidos al margen de las obras que le hicieron famoso. Si Mary W. Shelley y su fundacional Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo (1818) es la madre del género, sin lugar a dudas el padre es el británico Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), porque fue él quien introdujo muchos de sus temas, enfoques y tratamientos. Prolífico novelista y pensador, creador de obras imprescindibles en la literatura universal, sus libros de «anticipación sociológica» tuvieron una notable influencia entre sus coetáneos de la escena intelectual y muy especialmente sobre la ciencia ficción posterior. De hecho, su popularidad perdura hasta nuestros días. Una de las mejores descripciones acerca de su personalidad contradictoria la realiza John Clute en su Enciclopedia Ilustrada: “Tenía una voz aguda y atiplada, y su piel olía a miel. Amó a sus esposas, pero se acostaba con cualquier mujer que le hiciera un sitio en su cama. Era un mocetón robusto de clase trabajadora en un mundo que mataba pronto a su especie, pero vivió hasta los ochenta años. Pretendía desdeñar el difícil arte de la ficción, pero no podía dejar de escribir novelas y una docena de ellas aún nos sorprenden por su brillantez, claridad mental y presciencia. Inventó la novela científica británica, aunque no el término, y fue el escritor de ciencia ficción más importante que ha conocido el género, aunque él nunca llamó a su obra ciencia ficción. -
Professor Ernest Keppel Takes up the Idea in His Own Peculiar Fashion 90 7 8 Contents VI Opening Phases of the Great Eugenic Research IOJ
Star-Begotten, $ r .7 5 ALSO BY H. G. WELLS $1.2 5 "Here is Wells at his best and when Wells writes at his best he produces a book that no reader in our 1nodern times can afford to ig nore." -WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE, Book-of the-Month Club News. "The old authentic magic of H. G. Wells." -N. Y. Herald Tribune Books. "A thriller of unusual power, gripping and gruesome as only Mr. Wells can make such a tale .... A social commentary, a very shrewd and biting one."-JoSEPH HENRY JACKSON, San Francisco Chronicle. "You would think it barely possible that there· was a new kind of ghost-story to be written, yet that is what Mr. Wells has suc ceeded in doing.... The reader will certainly be grateful to the author for a fable so bril liantly provocative."-RALPH STRAUS, Sun day Times, London. "Not since the day long ago when I was first enthralled and puzzled by Henry James's story The Turn of the Screw, have I been so much perplexed and entertained by any so called ghost story -as I have been by H. G. Wells's latest fiery particle." -The Providence Sunday Journal. "A blend of the early Wells horror story and the Wells of William Clissold . ... The Croquet Player is the old Wells book again." -The United Press. "Masterpiece of exact and dove-tailed nar rative ... Mr. Wells scatters ideas in profu sion. He provides material for a hundred argu ments and clarifies as many perplexities." - The Daily Mail, London. Tk VikUUJ j),,ee.,s_ 18 EAST 48 T H STREET, NEW YOR K Star.. -
HG Wells in Nature, 1893-1946
John S. Partington (ed.) H. G. Wells in Nature, 1893-1946 A Reception Reader Contents Abbreviations General Introduction and Acknowledgements Part 1: The Essays, Reviews and Letters by H. G. Wells 1.1 'Popularising Science' 1.2 'Science, in School and After School' 1.3 'Peculiarities of Psychical Research' 1.4 'The Sequence of Studies' 1.5 'Bio-optimism' 1.6 'The Discovery of the Future' 1.7 ' Education and Research' 1.8 'Men of Letters and Science in Russia' 1.9 'Scientific Neglect of the Mas d'AziF 1.10 'The Idea of a World Encyclopaedia' 1.11 'Biology for the Million' 1.12 'The Man of Science as Aristocrat' 1.13 'The Illusion of Personality' Part 2: Reviews of the Works of H. G. Wells 2.1 Text-book of Biology and Text-book of Zoology 2.2 The Time Machine 2.3 'Human Evolution, an Artificial Process' 2.4 The War of the Worlds 2.5 The First'Men in the Moon 2.6 Anticipations, Mankind in the Making and The Food of the Gods 2.7 A Modern Utopia 2.8 In the Days of the Comet 213 2.9 The Future in America 215 2.10 What is Coming? 223 2.11 The Outline of History and Mr Belloc Objects to 'The Outline of History' 227 2.12 The Salvaging of Civilisation 247 2.13 A Short History of the World 253 2.14 Men Like Gods 257 2.15 The Story of a Great Schoolmaster 265 2.16 The World of William Clissold 271 2.17 The Short Stories ofH. -
THSFICTION0B0 .S. L$W I8 Thesis for The
THSFICTION0B0 .S. L$W I8 ý Thesis for the Degree of :Doctor of philosophy The University of Leeds by Jobs D. Heigh Deoeiaber 1962. i. PON'ACE All the articles on, and references to, Lewis which I have consulted are listed in the Bibliography. As for as I am aware, there has been no previous full-length treatment of Lewis's fiction. the most complete study of his thought known to me is Chad Walsh's C. 9 . Lewis; Apostle to the Skeptics (1949) , which deals, often briefly, with Lewis's fiction, though not, of course, with 'The Chronicles of Narnia' and Till We Have Faces, As indicated at several points in the thesis ,I find myself in general agreement with Chad Walsh, whose book I was not able to utilize until revising my first version. John Wain's recent autobiography, Sprightly Rt iinß (1962), appeared in time for me to quote its account of Lewis's views on romance (Dhopter XIX of this thesis ), but too late for me to supplement my brief description of Levis In life at Oxford (Chapter II of the thesis ). It gives a fascinating account of Lewis and his circle in wartime Oxford. ii. CONTSNTs E°R° Prefsoe i Cue-titles and symbols iv I TIE FORMATIVEMEATS 1 11 TIE YEIºRSOF ACHIEV. NT 20 III THE PILGRIM'S 1ZG&ES8 30 IV THOM 53 V THEOLOGYINTO FICTION 69 VI THE SCMTAPE LETTERS 78 VII TIM GREATDIVOIC$ 95 VIII THE THEOLOGICALROMANE 110 IX TILL WE WE FACES 128 I THEPLANETARY ROMMS 143 II OUT a TIE SILUT P_LANE _T_ 165 X11 PEWELA)F! --- 185 x III $HAT HIDEOUS$T1 TH 216 XIV THE CHILDREN'SFANTASY 241 XV THEWO1LD OF NARNIA 255 XVI OYMBOLICTHEOLOGY 271 XVII THE ETHICS UP MLPLAM3 289 XVIII THE GRAN) WBIGN 306 X31 is IS ANDCONTEMPORARY CRITICISM 325 XZ LEWI8 , YAURIA A* GMKSM 353 X11 CON LUSION 375 iii . -
Some Approaches to Teaching the Speculative Literature of Science Fiction and the Supernatural
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 128 788 CS 202 768 TITLE Far Out: Some Approaches to Teaching the Speculative Literature of Science Fiction and the Supernatural. INSTITUTION Los Angeles City Schools, Calif. Div. of Instructional Planning and Services. PUB DATE 74 NOTE 121p. EDRS PRICE MF-$0.83 HC-$6.01 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Behavioral Objectives; Bibliographies; Curriculum Guides; Fantasy; *Fiction; Films; *Literature Appreciation; *Science Fiction; Secondary Education; Short Courses ABSTRACT This curriculum guide contains course descriptions (for minicourses and semester-long courses), outlines, and class projects for teaching science fiction and the supernatural in junior and senior high schools. The eight course descriptions include objectives, methods, activities, and resources and materials. Lists of science fiction books and films are appended. (JR) *********************************************************************** * Documents acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublished * *materials not available from other sources. ERIC akes every effort* *to obtain the best copy available. Nevertheless, items of marginal * *reproducibility are often encountered and this affects the quality * *of the microfiche and hardcopy reproductions ERIC makes available * *via the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS). EDRS is not * *responsible for the quality of the original document. Reproductions* *supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original. * *********************************************************************** ,B U S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION WELFARE op . NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF co EDUCATION TmIS DOCUMENT mAS BEEN REPRO- r-- DUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGIN- oo ATING IT POINTS OF viEw oq OPINIONS \.1 STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRE c SENT OFFICIAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF v-4 EDUCATION POSITION OR POLICY I Ca FAR OUT 11J Some Approaches to Teaching The Speculative Literature of Science Fiction and the Supernatural ,rqu Los Angeles City Schools, Instructional Planning Division, Publication No. -
The Theme of Man's Instinctual Life in Selected
by Roger Bowon B.A. (~ons) Cambridge University, 1965 A TICSIS Srn~E'l'Trn IN PttPTIAL mmmn OF THE REQUIR@~I~SFOX TEE DEGREE OF NASTER OF iL9TS in the Department 0 f %lish 0 Roger Sowen 1968 SIMON FRASER UITIVXRSITY July 1968 Senior Supervisor &mining Connittee Wining Coimittoe PARTTAL COPYRIGIIT LICENSE I hereby grant to Simon Fraser University the right to lend my thesis or dissertation (the title of which is shown below) to users of the Simon Fraser University Library, and to make partial or single copies only for such users or in response to a request from the library of any other university, or other educational institution, on its own behalf or for one of its users. I further agree that permission for multiple copying of this thesis for scholarly purposes may be granted by me or the Dean of Graduate Sttldies. It is understood that copying or publication of this thesis for financial gain shall not be allowed without my written permission. Title of Thesis/~issertation: Author: (signature ) (name ) (date) In the General Introduction to the Atlantic Edition Wells defines his work as %xperinents in statementtt. This study works forward from a consideration of Wells as a tlphilosophe of the Darwinian &gelt (H.G. Wells and the World State, agar) and of his concept of the temporary texperimentt of evolution to a textual analysis of his literary experiment, which he assumed was doomed to a similar impermanence. The primary metaphysic which emerges from Wellsts scientific background, the philosophical meat and drink" (Magar) derived from Darwin and Hdey, is a recognition of the vulnerability of human nature, composed as it is of an acquired %oral senseI1, and a recognition also of an inbred instinctual life, a kind of biological stain with its source in mants animal origins. -
NICHOLAS RUDDICK: Publications (March 2015)
NICHOLAS RUDDICK: Publications (March 2015) 1. Books as Author (In press) Science Fiction Adapted to Film. Canterbury, UK: Gylphi Limited. The Fire in the Stone: Prehistoric Fiction from Charles Darwin to Jean M. Auel. [Early Classics of Science Fiction.] Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2009. xx + 266 pp. Ultimate Island: On the Nature of British Science Fiction. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1993. xi + 202 pp. British Science Fiction: A Chronology, 1478-1990. New York, Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1992. xxvi + 250 pp. Christopher Priest. [Starmont Reader’s Guide #50.] Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1989. x + 104 pp. [From 1993 distributed by Borgo Press, San Bernardino, CA.] 2. Books as Editor The Call of the Wild. By Jack London. 1903. [Broadview Editions.] Peterborough, ON and Buffalo, NY: Broadview Press, 2009. 213 pp. The Woman Who Did. By Grant Allen. 1895. [Broadview Editions.] Peterborough, ON and Orchard Park, NY: Broadview Press, 2004. 238 pp. Caesar’s Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century. By Ignatius Donnelly. 1890. [Early Classics of Science Fiction.] Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003. lvii + 278 pp. The Time Machine: An Invention. By H.G. Wells. 1895. [Broadview Literary Texts.] Peterborough, ON and Orchard Park, NY: Broadview Press, 2001. 294 pp. State of the Fantastic: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Fantastic Literature and Film. [Selected Essays from the Eleventh International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, 1990]. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1992. xvi + 210 pp. 3. Guest Edition of Scholarly Journal Doris Lessing Special Issue of Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 2.3 (Fall 1989). -
Hg Wells's the War of the Worlds As a Controlling Metaphor
H. G. WELLS’S THE WAR OF THE WORLDS AS A CONTROLLING METAPHOR FOR THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Stephen Baxter This paper is based on a talk given to the H. G. Wells Society seminar on ‘Wells and Science and Philosophy’ at Imperial College, London, 28th September 2007. Introduction The continuing relevance of H. G. Wells’s 1898 novel The War of the Worlds is illustrated by Niall Ferguson’s The War of the World (2006).1 This is a history of the ‘age of hatred’ of the twentieth century, showing how the Second World War was the climax of decades of savage warfare which scarred the globe from the 1930s to the 1950s. And Ferguson takes his title, and indeed his controlling metaphor, from Wells’s novel, calling it ‘a work of singular prescience. In the century after the publication of his book, scenes like the ones Wells imagined became a reality in cities all over the world …’2 How did a book written at the end of the nineteenth century come to stand, in a book published in the twenty-first century, as a metaphor for the entire twentieth? The purpose of this essay is to trace Wells’s influence as exemplified through a century of reactions to this single work in non-fiction and in fiction, in restagings, reimaginings and fresh explorations of Wells’s novel, and in sub-genres deriving from it. These are mirrors that expose the themes of the work itself. My survey includes a fictional response by the older Wells to his own early work. -
20 Keith Williams in the Strange Manifestations of His Early Fiction, H. G. Wells Often Reworked Occult Themes in (Quasi-)Scient
‘G HOSTS FROM THE MACHINE ’: TECHNOLOGISATION OF THE UNCANNY IN H. G. WELLS Keith Williams In the strange manifestations of his early fiction, H. G. Wells often reworked occult themes in (quasi-)scientific terms. Simultaneously, Janet Oppenheim underscores a paradoxical convergence between the sub-atomic materiality of late Victorian science and the concept of an ‘other world, despite the decline in conventional religious belief: The quest for a hidden pattern, a unifying framework, a fundamental theory, to bring together every diverse particle and force in the cosmos was intrinsically the same, whether one stressed the links between heat, electricity, magnetism, and light, or looked for connections between spirit, mind and matter. 1 Theorisation and investigation of paranormal phenomena were particularly involved with the growth of new communications technologies, as other studies by Helen Sword, Jeffrey Sconce, Roger Luckhurst, Tim Armstrong and Marina Warner amply testify. 2 These included telegraphy, photography, film, radio and early experiments leading to television. Many were dependent on discoveries that became associated with psychics as much as physics, with the ethereal and the ether -real as it were, with both spectrality and the expanding electromagnetic spectrum. Frederic Myers, of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), coined the term ‘telepathy’ for thought transmission in likely allusion to such ‘uncanny’ technological distanciations of human agency. 3 Elaborating the analogy, 1 Janet Oppenheim, The Other World: Spiritualism -
General Publishers
ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS ARE ON THE INSIDE BACK COVER CONTENTS PART 1: BOOKS SECTION I (General Books) Pages SCIENCE FICTION / FANTASY / MYSTERY BOOKS .......................... 3 - 16 ASH-TREE PRESS BOOKS ...................................................................... 16 OZ BOOKS ................................................................................................. 17 BIG LITTLE BOOKS TYPE STUFF ......................................................... 18 GNOME PRESS DUST JACKETS ............................................................ 18 WORLD SCIENCE FICTION PROGRAM BOOKS ................................. 19 PAUL & BRUNDAGE BOOKS FEATURED ON THE COVER ............. 19 SCARCE & UNUSUAL ITEMS ................................................................ 20 BARGAIN BASEMENT BOOK BIN ........................................................ 21 - 30 PAPERBACKS ........................................................................................... 31 - 38 JOHN NORMAN GOR SERIES ................................................................ 39 ROBERT E. HOWARD & RELATED PAPERBACKS ............................ 39 SECTION II (Pulp Paperbacks) DOC SAVAGE ........................................................................................... 40 THE SHADOW .......................................................................................... 40 - 41 THE AVENGER ......................................................................................... 41 OTHER PAPERBACK SERIES ................................................................ -
H. G. W ELLS and PENGUIN BOOKS, 1935-2005 Patrick
1 H. G. WELLS AND PENGUIN BOOKS, 1935-2005 Patrick Parrinder Like many people of my generation, the first Wells book that I owned was a Penguin paperback: the Selected Short Stories, first published in 1958 when I was about fourteen. Soon afterwards I got hold of The War of the Worlds in Penguin (in the 1956 reprint) and a little later The Island of Doctor Moreau in the 1964 Penguin Modern Classics reprint which still cost only 3/6 (or less than 20p). Somewhere in the house was my father’s Pelican edition of A Short History of the World. So when Penguin approached me in 2003 with an invitation to become general editor of their new Wells series, I was a ready convert. At that time they had only one Wells title still in their lists, A Short History of the World, which was first published in Penguin very soon after the firm was founded by Allen Lane in 1935. Wells’s biographers have barely mentioned his Penguin books, nor do the biographies of Allen Lane have very much to say about Wells.2 Penguin, however, were (together with Secker & Warburg) one of Wells’s two principal publishers during the last ten years of his life, and as a paperback imprint they kept his books in the public eye when he might easily have fallen into relative obscurity. Writing to Beatrice Webb in 1940, Wells described Allen Lane as ‘one of the greatest educationists alive’.3 The letter to Webb appears in David Smith’s edition of Wells’s correspondence, but for the rest of Wells’s dealings with Penguin Books one must have recourse to the business correspondence files of the Wells Collection at the University of Illinois.