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Gene Barry and Ann Robinson are among the humans intrigued when a meteor-like object crashes to Earth… but its occupants are definitely not friendly. Winner of Best Special Effects and Nominated for Best Editing at the **Academy Awards.** *"...Director Byron Haskin, working from a tight script by Barre Lyndon, has made this excursion suspenseful, fast and, on occasion, properly chilling." - A.H.Weiler, **The New York Times***
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xii, 254 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this remarkable, empathetic biography, Claire Tomlain paints a fascinating portrait of a man like no other, driven by curiosity and desiring reform, a socialist and a futurist whose new and imaginative worlds continue to inspire today.
Author
Series
Map of time volume 1
Language
English
Description
London, 1896. Andrew Harrington's lover Marie Kelly was murdered by Jack the Ripper and he longs to turn back the clock and save her. Meanwhile, Claire Haggerty, forever being matched with men her family consider suitable, yearns for a time when she can be free to love whom she choses. As their quests converge, it becomes clear that time is the problem -- to escape it or to change it. Hidden in the attic of popular author -- and noted scientific speculator...
Author
Series
Map of time volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
611 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
7) H.G. Wells
Author
Publisher
Rourke Enterprises
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the English author who has been called the first great science fiction writer, with a discussion of his works.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
What began as a broadcast performance of H.G. Wells' fantasy, The War of the Worlds, turned into one of the biggest mass hysteria events in U.S. history. American Experience examines the elements that together created this frenzy, including our longtime fascination with life on Mars; the emergence of radio as a powerful new medium; and the creative wunderkind Orson Welles, the twenty-three-year-old director of the drama and mischief-maker supreme....
Publisher
Hollywood's Attic
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A bored group of celestials decide to give an "ordinary little fellow" the power to work miracles. Timid British department store clerk George McWhirter Fotheringay receives the special gift and after experimenting with conjurer's tricks, he soon realizes that his powers attract everyone except Ada Price, a young woman he admires from afar.
Author
Series
Map of time volume 3
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
574 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The action of the wondrous final volume in Spanish author Palma's speculative thriller trilogy, which began with "The Map of Time", unfolds in several Victorian eras in parallel universes, beginning with esteemed biologist Herbert George Wells' attempt to create a virus that will allow the residents of his doomed steampunk world to escape to another realm free of threat"--
11) The lodger
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dorothy Richardson is existing just above the poverty line, doing secretarial work at a dentist's office ... when she is invited to spend the weekend with a childhood friend. Jane has recently married a writer who is hovering on the brink of fame. His name is H.G. Wells, or Bertie, as they call him ... Dorothy notices his grey-blue eyes taking her in, openly signaling approval. He tells her he and Jane have an agreement which allows them the freedom...
Series
Graphic classics volume 3
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Second edition.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
144 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1914. The Great War grips the world--and from the Western Front a strange story emerges...a story of St. George and a brigade of angels descending from heaven to fight beside the beleaguered British troops. But can there be any truth to it? H. G. Wells, the most celebrated writer of his day--author of The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man--is dispatched to find out. There, he finds an eerie wasteland inhabited by the living,...
Author
Series
Map of time volume 2
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
594 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When a New York socialite challenges her millionaire suitor to reproduce the extraterrestrial invasion featured in H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds," three fantastical adventures in time travel and mystery ensue.
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