From “The War of the Worlds” by H. G. Wells. The caligraphy is properly read while listening to “The Tapping of Little Feet” by Philter: https://youtu.be/ov-L1k4rkSs which inspired me to choose this quote (though the quoted audio there is from a separate dramatization and won’t line up exactly).

I wanted to try out various styles of handwriting I’ve learned as an exercise with my new italic nib.

#books #hgwellsquotes #hgwells #quotes #scifi #calligraphy #FountainPen #music #philter

In 1895, H.G. Wells asked a question : what happens when a complete system separates itself from what sustains it, and succeeds? Follow the Time Traveler to the year 802,701 AD to witness the thermodynamic endpoint of extraction.

#HGWells #SciFi #AIart #PublicDomain

https://youtu.be/LathEdPmF4s?si=P7RSHCECM3p6___Z

MISTER ATOMPUNK PRESENTS: Essential Thoughts Episode 8 — The Time Machine

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“Wells is explicitly concerned with the #English, as the biggest #imperialists of the day. He says, more or less openly, that they deserve to be punished for their arrogance.” #HGWells #WarOfTheWorlds daily.jstor.org/the-evolutio...

The Evolution of Britain's Inv...
The Evolution of Britain's Invasion Fiction - JSTOR Daily

How fears of foreign plots and national decline moved from nineteenth-century novels into today's thrillers.

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/116720919490343442

Soudain, nous sommes devenus aux #Éloïs de "Machine à explorer le temps", de H. G. Wells, en ignorant des #Morlocks qui se cachent pour nous détruire entièrement.

#HGWells #TimeMachine #AI #ModernTimes

“Human #history becomes more and more a race between #education and #catastrophe... Yet, clumsily or smoothly, the world, it seems, progresses and will #progress.” - #H.G.Wells

Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells. Free audiobook with scrolling text on YouTube.

There is a moment in Ann Veronica when the eponymous heroine, newly free from the stifling grip of her father’s authority, finds herself in the thrum of Edwardian London, her city and her world, both alien and familiar. H. G.

Listen: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqPQQc4SlnxLmhE1T4n-gXJIaKorsXhVv

#IonBooks #audiobook #NewWomanNovel #Edwardian #HGWells

“So you get this classic example – as you do with #HGWells – of someone who’s philosophically incredibly brilliant, as #Borges obviously is, and manages to predate what is then classified as scientific theory simply by thinking about the universe in an interesting way” fivebooks.com/best-books/j...

Parallel Worlds
Parallel Worlds

Author Joanna Kavenna discusses books that focus on parallel worlds and realities with Five Books in this fascinating interview.

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#TimeTravelAuthors 05/29 A weird comp (any medium) for your time travel story

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Volume 2 of #TimeTravelingGhost (still to be written) could be comped with The Time Machine by H. G. Wells or any of his other dystopian, surreal portrayals of the future. I recently read some of these and realized the visual and textural parallels.

It is likely I will borrow some of the scenery from them for that volume.

The Time Machine:

#NMTTA #NMPrompts #TimeTravel #HistoricalFantasy #UrbanFantasy #Mythpunk #Serial #HGWells