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H G Wells
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‘The Science of H G Wells’Stephen Baxter examines the scientific basis of the Time Machine (Teacher interest):
www.sam.math.ethz.ch/~pkeller/BAXTER/Articles/HGWells.html

‘Science of the Time Machine’Stephen Baxter discusses ‘four-dimensional spacetime’ and how it shaped Wells’ ideas (Teacher interest):
www.sam.math.ethz.ch/~pkeller/BAXTER/Articles/PicoconTalk.html

Online editions of The Invisible Man, The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds:
www.nucleus.com/~dreamwvr/hg_wells.htm

Academic guide to TheWar of the Worlds with useful hypertext links and extensive sci-fi bibliography:
www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/science_fiction/warofworlds.html

‘The Complete War of the Worlds Website’: includes Orson Welles’ infamous broadcast, films, TV shows and musicals based on Wells’ book:
http://incolor.inetnebr.com/wotw/

The War of The Worlds
reading list with key links:
www.hidden-knowledge.com/potlatch/book.htm

The planet Mars in literature, radio and film – internationally respected website, written by a Mars research scientist at NASA:
http://humbabe.arc.nasa.gov/mgcm/fun/pop.html

Science Fiction on Radio (including Welles’ radio production):
www.mtn.org/~jstearns/wow.html

Start exploring sci-fi in Cyberspace:
http://calcna.ab.ca/world/scifi.html

Complete listing of Wells’ major works:
www.euro.net/mark-space/HGWells.html

Detailed listings of HG Wells’ writings:
http://scifiarchive.com/wellshg.htm

Online ordering of Wells’ books:
www.a-ten.com/a_z/wells.html

Wells’ (1937) blueprint for global consciousness (Teacher interest):
www.azstarnet.com/~nuu/hgwells/wb0.

Jules Verne:
From the earth to the moon (1865):
www.literature.org/authors/verne-jules/earth-to-the-moon/;
A Trip Round The Moon (1870):
www.literature.org/authors/verne-jules/round-the-moon/ [electronic texts]

The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter is a modern sequel to The Time Machine. Bookshop reviews:
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0061056480

Sci-fi clip art: blobs, bugs, centaurs, etc:
http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf-texts/clipart/