Tales of Space and Time

I've been re-disovering H. G. Wells lately, and this collection of short stories is bursting with imagination and entertainment : THE CRYSTAL EGG - I loved the concept of the crystal egg itself, and the slow reveal of what the egg is holds the attention throughout the story. Towards the end, I though......more

Stories The man who could work miracles 5/5 The star 4/5 The crystal egg. 4/5 The story of the stone age 3/5 The story of the days to come 3/5......more

It is interesting to see how people from the past imagined the future. You get a feeling that many alternative scenarios could have evolved and we live just in one of them :) And, you know, science can be quite entertaining :))......more

I'm starting to enjoy reading science fiction short stories from 1895. Of course Victorian science fiction authors get many predictions wrong but then again modern day authors have the same problem so I try not to let that get in the way of a good story. With this particular anthology, Wells makes th......more

This is sort of a mixed bag consisting of 3 short stories and 2 novellas. The first story 'The Crystal Egg' is an imaginative science fiction. The next one is a disaster genre story depicting the collision of an asteroid with earth. The two novellas or tales that follow are based on stone age and a......more