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What is the name of the first Gashlycrumb Tiny, who fell down the stairs, in Edward Gorey's ABC book?
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What year does H.G. Wells' Time Traveller boldly visit?
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The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
What Animal was in the cage that Dr. Moreau could not wait to start working on when Prendick first arrived on the Island?
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In H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, what finally defeats the Martians?
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In what fantasy series do the writers Geoffrey of Monmouth, J.M. Barrie, H.G. Wells, and Charles Williams (among many others) all appear as characters?
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Aldous Huxley's Brave New World was inspired by which H.G. Wells novel?
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Which science fiction novel by H.G.Wells, was first produced in 1938 as a radio broadcast show before it became a movie in 1953?
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Who wrote a novel in which speech recognition technology plays a central role?
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Which book refers to "the unseen good old man"?
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What name is shared by the authors of The Time Machine, The Rainbow and Dune?
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What was H.G. Wells' full name?
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In H.G. Wells' 1898 novel The War of the Worlds, the three-legged fighting machines utilize a Heat-Ray and what other offensive weapon?
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Which novel by H.G. Wells is a science fiction novel describing an invasion of England by aliens from Mars, and is one of the earliest and best-known depictions of an alien invasion of Earth?
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To which of these writers did Robert Louis Stevenson refer to as "the Prince of Men" in one of his little poems?
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In the book by H.G. Wells, what was the name of The Invisible Man?
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Brave New World is by?
   
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H G Wells said he realized that the Invisible Man would be blind. Why? H.G. Wells
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After parodying his work and style in one of his publications, a certain novelist wrote in a contrite letter to Henry James: "To you literature like painting is an end, to me literature like architecture is a means, it has a use." Who was the novelist in question?
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Finish this title to the H.G. Wells novel:
"The Island of Dr. _____"?
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In The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, whose company does the main character come to despise?
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Where does The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells take place?
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Who wrote the little poem "Jamesian" which consists of only these two lines:
"Their relationship consisted
In discussing if it existed"?
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What causes the spaceship to fly to the moon in H.G. Wells' Sci-Fi novel, The First Men in the Moon?
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What utopian novel directly inspired Aldous Huxley to write his dystopian classic Brave New World?
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Many science fiction novels can be considered contrasting meditations on the same theme. Of the works listed below, which work on the same theme can be most easily considered to directly contrast with The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells?
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In The War of the Worlds by Herbert George Wells, what is the name of the ironclad ram that temporarily stalls the Martian destruction of the Essex coast?
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About the novels of which famous author did H.G. Wells make the following remark:
"[They are:] like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently placed, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string. . . ."
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Which two writers were exact contemporaries, in that they were both born in the year 1882 and both died in 1941?
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"I gave Bert sex; I had to. He was over at our house struggling with a poem he couldn't finish, so I took him upstairs and gave him sex. He came downstairs and finished that verse in twenty-five minutes."
Reportedly the words of Alice Dax about the day a young writer lost his virginity. Who was the twenty-two year-old she knew as Bert?
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Who made this comment on the technical progress enabling people to come up with ever new methods of transportation and travel?
"When they have managed to get travellers comfortably seated inside a cannon so that they can be shot off like bullets in any given direction civilisation will doubtless have taken a great step forward. We are making rapid strides towards that happy time when space will have been abolished; but they will never abolish boredom, especially when you consider the ever increasing need for some occupation to fill in our time, part of which, at least, used to be spent in travelling."
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