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Plattner Story and Others

H. G. Wells

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Collection of early Sci-fi stories.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . . season-ticket holders one to another; the seaside excursionists, the Saturday-to-Monday trippers from Sussex and Hampshire and Dorset and Devon, the eminent literary people from Hazlemere, all remarked eagerly one to another, “He will be off some day,” as the familiar scaffolding came in sight. And actually, one bright morning, in full view of the ten-past-ten train from Basingstoke, Monson’s flying-machine started on its journey.

They saw the carrier running swiftly along its rail, and the white and gold screw spinning in the air. They heard the rapid rumble of wheels, and a thud as the carrier reached the buffers at the end of its run. Then a whirr as the Flying-Machine was shot forward into the networks. All that the majority of them had seen and heard before. The thing went with a drooping flight through the framework and rose again, and then every beholder shouted, or screamed, or yelled, or shrieked after his kind. For instead of th. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Not all Science Fiction good historical period writings

A mixed bag for sure, but everything in it is stylish.

The Plattner Story and Others is a collection of seventeen short stories by H. G. Wells.

THE PLATTNER STORY 3.5⭐
THE ARGONAUTS OF THE AIR 3⭐
THE STORY OF THE LATE MR. ELVESHAM 5⭐
IN THE ABYSS 3.25⭐
THE APPLE 5⭐
UNDER THE KNIFE 3.25⭐
THE SEA-RAIDERS 5⭐
POLLOCK AND THE PORROH MAN 5⭐
THE RED ROOM 5⭐
THE CONE 4⭐

Colección de cuentos varios de uno de los padres de la ciencia ficción, escritor que me ha fascinado desde hace algunos años gracias a sus novelas del género.

Aquí, además de cuentos de ciencia ficción, podemos encontrar algunos de fantasía y horror, pero también narraciones realistas. No todos los t

Great short story collection.

Intercambios de cuerpos, transformaciones, venganza, calamares gigantes, monotonía conyugal, exploraciones marinas, viajes astrales mientras estás siendo operado, etc. Todo eso y más vamos a encontrar en estos relatos. Es genial leer una faceta diferente de Wells, pues muchos nos adentramos en su li

This collection, seventeen tales published between 1894-1896, is one of the best I've read in a long time.

Wells' early SF novels are part of our culture's consciousness by now, but it is here in the short story form that I was able to fully appreciate his astonishing range. He is not *only* the aut

Elegí la lectura de este libro por H.G. Wells, un autor de reconocida y merecida reputación en la temprana ciencia ficción, con clásicos indiscutibles de la literatura universal como son ‘La máquina del tiempo’, ‘La guerra de los mundos’ o ‘El hombre invisible’; por acercarme a uno de los pioneros d