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  • War Of The Worlds

    by H.G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder, Andy Sawyer ...
    The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works. ... Read more

    $10.11 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobooks

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  • Adventures in Space (Short stories by Chinese and English Science Fiction writers)

    by Patrick Parrinder, Yao Haijun, Leah Cypess, Ronald Ferguson, Russell James, Alex Shvartsman, Amdi Silvestri, Allen Stroud, Eleanor Wood, Zhao Haihong, Chen Zijun, Han Song, Wang Jinkang, He Xi, Bao Shu ...
    An anthology of visionary new stories from Chinese and English-language writers, featuring three Hugo Award-nominated tales. If you love the mission of science fiction, the exchange between cultures, and the hopeful trajectory of technology and ideas, this collection is for you.An impressive joint project, this outstanding new anthology brings the best of Chinese and English-language science ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Science Fiction: A Critical Guide

    Edited by Patrick Parrinder ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Science Fiction
    This book, first published in 1979, presents a portrait of science fiction as a distinct form of serious and creative literature. Contributors are drawn from Britain, America and Europe, and range from well-known academic critics to young novelists. The essays establish the common properties of science fiction writing, and assess the history and significance of a field in which critical judgements ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Correspondence of H G Wells Vol 3

    by H G Wells, David Smith, Patrick Parrinder ...
    This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2000 letters, both business and personal. Wells's private correspondence includes letters to Winston Churchill. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Correspondence of H G Wells Vol 1

    by H G Wells, David Smith, Patrick Parrinder ...
    This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2000 letters, both business and personal. Wells's private correspondence includes letters to Winston Churchill. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Correspondence of H G Wells Vol 4

    by H G Wells, David Smith, Patrick Parrinder ...
    This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2000 letters, both business and personal. Wells's private correspondence includes letters to Winston Churchill. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Correspondence of H G Wells Vol 2

    by H G Wells, David Smith, Patrick Parrinder ...
    This collection of H.G. Wells's correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells's daughter by Amber Reeves. The book contains over 2000 letters, both business and personal. Wells's private correspondence includes letters to Winston Churchill. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Time Machine

    by H. G. Wells ...
    'The father of science fiction' GuardianThe Time Machine is the first and greatest modern portrayal of time-travel. It sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, when he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from humans, he soon realizes that they are ... Read more

    $7.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Utopian Literature and Science

    From the Scientific Revolution to Brave New World and Beyond

    by Patrick Parrinder ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Scientific progress is usually seen as a precondition of modern utopias, but science and utopia are frequently at odds. Ranging from Galileo's observations with the telescope to current ideas of the post-human and the human-animal boundary, this study brings a fresh perspective to the paradoxes of utopian thinking since Plato. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Alien Invasion Short Stories

    by Bo Balder, Jennifer Rachel Baumer, Maria Haskins, Suo Hefu, Rachael K. Jones, Claude Lalumière, Rich Larson, Angus McIntyre, Stephen Parks, Sunil Patel, Laura Pearlman, Tim Pieraccini, Eric Reitan, John Walters, S.A. Westerley, William Wood ...
    Series series Gothic Fantasy
    New authors and collections. Visitors from other planets have long obsessed us. H.G. Wells’ War of Worlds spawned a huge wave of speculative fiction but the roots of such fears run deep in our literature, where the mysteries of other cultures have long threatened the familiar and the comfortable. Did aliens build the ancient pyramids? do they live amongst us today? what happens when they invade? ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Science Fiction

    by Patrick Parrinder ...
    First Published in 2002. This volume is about Science Fiction, its criticisms and teaching and covers the rise of science-fiction as a study and genre, looking at the work of H.G Wells, and the themes of epic, fable, language, cultures, its sociology, as a romance, and of a working daydream. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Science Fiction

    A Critical Guide

    by Patrick Parrinder ...
    First published in 1979. This volume presents Science Fiction as a coherent system, not as a collection of facts or random sequence of individual voices. The contributors are concerned with less with surveying the bare facts of the genre than with interpretating their significance. They attempt to establish the common properties of Science Fiction writing whether in the treatment of a theme or in ... Read more

    $73.99 USD