Tag: H. G. Wells
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Reading Science Fiction
Reading Science Fiction literature has always been one of my main interests in life, and I\’ve been reading \”proper\” science fiction since I first signed out H.G. Wells\’ The Time Machine from the local library at the tender age of about eight or nine years old (circa 1969-1970). I usually prefer older (classic) SF, pre-\”New…
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VOYAGERS IN TIME edited by Robert Silverberg
[I]n my last SF Anthologies post I commented that I\’d recently bought a couple of nice old SF anthologies from Amazon UK. I made a few comments about the newer of the two anthologies, TRIPS IN TIME and gave a contents listing for it. Here\’s the same routine for the second anthology, which was published…
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VOYAGERS IN TIME edited by Robert Silverberg
TITLE: VOYAGERS IN TIME – Twelve Stories of Science Fiction EDITED BY: Robert Silverberg CATEGORY: Short Fiction SUB-CATEGORY: Anthology PUBLISHER: Meredith Press, New York, 1967 FORMAT: Hardcover, 243 pages. In my last post I commented that I\’d recently bought a couple of nice old SF anthologies from Amazon UK. I made a few comments about…
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Favourite SF Authors: H.G. Wells
This is the first of my Favourite SF Authors postings, and who better than the author who started it all for me, the man dubbed the \”father of science fiction\”, H.G. Wells. The first time I saw George Pal\’s film adaption of The Time Machine (1960) on television was probably the first event in my…
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It’s a Geek\’s Life… (Part Two)
The Golden Years – Geek Nirvana During the Seventies [T]he start of our teenage years is the sweet spot for the vast majority of us, particularly geeks, the beginning of what is probably the most fondly remembered period of our lives. It\’s long enough ago that most of our memories are fond, rosy ones, but…
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It\’s a Geek\’s Life… (Part One)
[H]ere\’s the first part (of three) in the story of my rise to geekhood. Early Days in the Sixties – Genesis of a Geek I’m a card-carrying geek. I’ve always been a geek. I\’ve been one all my life, right from when I was a very young child, and I simply can’t conceive of being…
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It’s a Geek\’s Life… (Part Two)
The Golden Years – Geek Nirvana During the Seventies The start of our teenage years is the sweet spot for the vast majority of us, particularly geeks, the beginning of what is probably the most fondly remembered period of our lives. It\’s long enough ago that most of our memories are fond, rosy ones, but…
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It\’s a Geek\’s Life… (Part One)
Here\’s the first part (of three) in the story of my rise to geekhood. Early Days in the Sixties – Genesis of a Geek I’m a card-carrying geek. I’ve always been a geek. I\’ve been one all my life, right from when I was a very young child, and I simply can’t conceive of being…