Who else really likes his work? And not just War of the Worlds, but the Time Machine and the Invisible Man. I love him and I think that because of the success of War of the Worlds a lot of his other work got overlooked.

Has anyone else read anything besides War of the Worlds by him?

I've read The Invisible Man and The Island of Dr Moreau. I've been meaning to read more of his stuff, I really liked those two. I like that kind of old sci-fi. But being an English student, you don't get any time to read anything that you actually enjoy







It's kind of ironic that I'm an english student yet I can only 'say it with smilies'.

I've never read War of the Worlds, I just picked up the Island of Dr Moreau once upon a time in the library on a whim, and thought it looked interesting (the way I've discovered most of my favourite writers and books.)

i've only read ann veronica by him. i think it's a later novel. is most of his stuff science fiction apart from this one?
oh yea, and i liked it a lot. unconventional romance & young woman trying to live independantly at the beginning of the 20th century

I think he stuck mainly to science fiction, but I'm not that sure. I dont know a lot about him.

i had a friend that was obsessed with that book. i think she read it tons of times over the past 20 years or something. i borrowed it and it was quite good. this was quite a while ago. it's short isnt it?

i've read WotW's, The Invisible Man, and something else which i can't remember.
He is okay, i prefer Olaf Stapledon.

I've never heard of him, I'll check him out...


I was obsessed with it for a while too...I think I annoyed people by talking about how it could work, or about what would happen if you tried to make animals like that, the moral implications and just lots of theories about it. It is quite short, but you binge on it, read it in a few hours and then you get all these thoughts in your head...so it lasts longer than the few hundred pages.

Stapledon is sort of the same era. Churchill, Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss, Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf were/are all fans.
Star Maker is probably the best sci fi book i've ever read.

and look how good the cover is:


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Maker-M...e=UTF8&s=books

I've always loved his work.

Today there was a Biography of him on the History International Channel. Very cool, I had no idea he was such a sex fiend (then, considered normal drive now) and helped launch the Sufferage movement.

If you can, watch it. It was very entertaining.

I found the war of the worlds a little bit dissapointing, I quite like the time machine even though it was very very different than what I was expecting, but overall his style isn't one I find that easy or pleasurable to read.

I did my GSCE coursework on the time machine
so i spent about a year studying it and writing about it
yet I can't remember a single thing about it
it must be some kind of mental block because I can remember the story of every other of the hundreds of books i have read in my life

I've never read any of his books, but i have this horror anthology with short stories by the likes of tolstoy and other famous writers and wells has a great one called 'The Flowering of the Strange Orchid' in there.

It's basically a little shop of horrors tale about a man who nurtures this rare orchid that eventually eats him alive. I'm not sure whether there are more stories like this or if that was the one that the film came from

Wells' short story The Crystal Egg is a favourite. Thanks for the Stapledon recommendation, if Borges likes him...