Wellsian

After all, thought of from a Wellsian perspective, it’s always possible that the Martians could actually be us or us, too, at least -- and not just the madmen among us either.

Tom Engelhardt: In the Crosshairs: Tucson-Kabul Tom Engelhardt 2011

After all, thought of from a Wellsian perspective, it’s always possible that the Martians could actually be us or us, too, at least -- and not just the madmen among us either.

Tom Engelhardt: In the Crosshairs: Tucson-Kabul Tom Engelhardt 2011

It is in other tales that the Wellsian promise is spoken that, thanks to technology and secular humanism, the things to come will make men like gods, as in such as in books called, by no coincidence, Things to Come or Men Like Gods.

MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel 2009

Similarly, Proust's Recherche is a fascinating post-Wellsian time-travel story; and Jonathan Littell's Kindly Ones a large-scale exercise in, or deconstruction of, Edgar Rice Burroughsian adventure.

MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa) 2010

After all, thought of from a Wellsian perspective, it’s always possible that the Martians could actually be us or us, too, at least -- and not just the madmen among us either.

Tom Engelhardt: In the Crosshairs: Tucson-Kabul Tom Engelhardt 2011

Meanwhile the book's depiction of a devolved mankind in a wistful far-futurity recalls scenes from HG Wells's The Time Machine – Aldiss has always been a great Wellsian.

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Lowell's "canals" meanwhile inspired both the gentle allegories of Ray Bradbury's "Martian Chronicles" (1950) and C.S. Lewis's counter- Wellsian fable, "Out of the Silent Planet" (1938).

Attack of the Classics Tom Shippey 2011

I got an email from the editor of the Wellsian, and they had accepted my essay on H.G.

Winter Snows, Doubt, and Donna Haraway 2010

These efforts ranged from a Wellsian sci-fi spectacle titled The Futurians, to a Hammer Film homage called Calliostro the Sorcerer, to adaptations of Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart."

INTERVIEW: James Morrow 2008

Ironically, while time machines and invisible men, Cavor's antigravity metal or invaders from Mars, remain dreams no less fantastic now as in the Victorian Era, the Wellsian fiction remains more timely than Verne's more accurate predictions, because the comments on society, on man's place in the universe, always remain pertinent.

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