false 497179 25 H. G. Wells<br><br>Scientific visionary. Social prophet. Master storyteller. Few novelists have captivated generations of readers like H. G. Wells. In enduring, electrifying detail, he takes us to dimensions of time and space that have haunted our dreams for centuries -- and shows us ourselves as we really are.<br><br> The time machine<br><br>In the heart of Victorian England, an inquisitve gentleman known only as the Time Traveler constructs an elaborate invention that hurtles him hundreds of thousands of years into the future. There he finds himself in the violent center of the ultimate conflict between beings of light and creatures of darkness.<br><br>The war of the worlds<br><br>Martians invade Great Britain, laying waste turn-of-the-century London. This tale of conquest by superior beings with superadvanced technology is so nightmarishly real that an adaptation by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater sent hundreds of impressionable radio listeners into panicked flight forty years after the story's original publication. 1156369 12 4 1976 The Time Machine/The War of the Worlds total:239|5:72|4:75|3:71|2:17|1:2| 239 916 336 23 2 1 false false Mon Jun 16 05:02:44 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 22 05:03:53 -0800 2008 Mon Jun 16 05:02:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Oct 24 19:19:51 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 09:16:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 07:04:51 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 08:18:51 -0700 2009
I know these stories are classic, and I know he was writing in the 1890s, but does the narrator have to spend half of his time talking about how he's better than everyone else, and the other half fretting about humankind becoming less "manly"?

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