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Authorship Collaboration Dame West, Rebecca 1892- Relations with men Human-alien encounters Drama Journalists Great Britain Biography Martians Drama Novelists, English 20th century Biography Time travel Fiction Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866-1946 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) 1866-1946 Fiction Wells, H. G.ǂq(Herbert George),ǂd1866-1946ǂvFilm adaptationsSummary: After a 25 year war destroys civilization, a group of scientific supermen set out to build a new one in this science fiction film. Decades later, their progress is threatened by a reactionary who urges the masses to rise up in protest.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI THISummary: This is an historical perspective about the book by H.G. Wells, The war of the worlds. Learn about the radio broadcast that changed history and aliens up-close and personal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Goldhil Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAR RATED PG-13Tomalin, Claire
Summary: The acclaimed literary biographer looks at the early life of influential writer and public figure H.G. Wells, from his school days and his emergence as writer of extraordinary depth to the publication of The Time Machine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WELLS, H.G. TOMSummary: H.G. Wells, whose time-travel pursuit of Jack the Ripper delivers him to a modern-day San Francisco, discovers a society far different from the utopia he had envisioned.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI TIMLansdale, Joe R.
Summary: H. G. Wells and Ned the Seal assist two shipwreck survivors, save a famous apeman, and set out on a quest for magic Golden Fleece --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANPalma, Felix J.
Summary: "The action of the wondrous final volume in Spanish author Palmaas speculative thriller trilogy (which began with "The Map of Time" unfolds in several Victorian eras in parallel universes, beginning with esteemed biologist Herbert George Wells' attempt to create a virus that will allow the residents of his doomed steampunk world to escape to another realm free of threat"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALCollins, Max Allan.
Summary: Walter Gibson arrives in New York to assist Welles on a film project while Welles is involved in the broadcast of The War of the Worlds. This Halloween prank created panic among listeners who believed the Martian attack was real. Was Welles doing something else during the actual broadcast? Did Welles murder his mistress on that night?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2005
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Summary: When a New York socialite challenges her millionaire suitor to reproduce the extraterrestrial invasion featured in Wells' War of the Worlds, three fantastical adventures in time travel and mystery ensue, replete with cameos by such figures as a young Edgar Allan Poe, Captain Shackleton and Charles Winslow from "The map of time'.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALPalma, Félix J.
Summary: London, 1896. Andrew Harrington's lover Marie Kelly was murdered by Jack the Ripper and he longs to turn back the clock and save her. Meanwhile, Claire Haggerty, forever being matched with men her family consider suitable, yearns for a time when she can be free to love whom she choses. As their quests converge, it becomes clear that time is the problem -- to escape it or to change it. Hidden in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALRay, Gordon Norton
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 RAYBarry, Gene
Summary: Martians invade a small town in 1950s California.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2020