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  • I had the impression to the H. G. Wells was a hard-core atheist.

    God and natural selection, hand in hand - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • In addition to the possibility of finding materials that have since disappeared from the web as sites have become defunct, there are also books and movies in the public domain, such as H. G. Wells' classic movie Things to Come 1936, Jean Danielou's book Primitive Christian Symbols, and Rudolf Bultmann's 1955 Gifford Lectures History and Eschatology.

    Archive 2007-07-01 James F. McGrath 2007

  • I used to equate Moscow with H. G. Wells' "Time Machine," because it got torn down and built up at such a frenetic pace.

    Hellin Kay: The 20th Anniversary of the Russian Coup (PHOTOS) Hellin Kay 2011

  • I used to equate Moscow with H. G. Wells' "Time Machine," because it got torn down and built up at such a frenetic pace.

    Hellin Kay: The 20th Anniversary of the Russian Coup (PHOTOS) Hellin Kay 2011

  • I used to equate Moscow with H. G. Wells' "Time Machine," because it got torn down and built up at such a frenetic pace.

    Hellin Kay: The 20th Anniversary of the Russian Coup (PHOTOS) Hellin Kay 2011

  • The only really notable thing about Woking is that H. G. Wells chose its sandpits, where I will soon ride my bike, as the landing place for the Martians in his classic sci-fi tale The War of the Worlds.

    Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010

  • Later, in the late 19th and early 20th century, when science fiction was a new genre, the same thing happened: writers would ease their readers into their worlds by writing in the first person, such as the unnamed narrators of H. G. Wells' The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, or John Carter, the narrator of Edgar Rice Burroughs' early Barsoom novels.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Johnny Pez 2010

  • Hugo Gernsback may have given the genre a name actually, two names, but the importance of scientific plausibility had already been established in the 19th century by Jules Verne and H. G. Wells.

    Mooning over "The Moon Woman" Johnny Pez 2010

  • H. G. Wells is still a contemporary, still in our, uh, ‘Prime Time.’

    The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010

  • Think of him as a Charles from another dimension—somewhat like your H. G. Wells, Herb, is to our Bert.

    The Dragon’s Apprentice James A. Owen 2010

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