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Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901 Fiction Human-alien encounters Drama Imaginary wars and battles Fiction Mars (Planet) Fiction Martians Drama Space warfare Fiction Time travel Fiction Utopian plays 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 THIWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix Giant 1987
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Summary: A scientist who has discovered how to make his body invisible, becomes violently insane when he realizes he cannot change back to visible form.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WELWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Summary: Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a draper, Artie Kipps is stunned to discover that he is the grandson of a wealthy gentleman and the heir to his fortune.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2001
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Summary: H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, from 1895, popularized the idea of a vehicle that allows its user to travel intentionally and selectively across time, and indeed Wells is credited with coining the very term "time machine." The Time Traveler of this novella tests his time machine with a leap forward to the year 802,701 A.D., to find that evolution has produced two very different post-human races...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD WELWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Summary: An intellectually superior race from Mars invades Earth with plans to take over the planet.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC 2012
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WELWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Summary: An English astronomer, in company with an artilleryman, a country curate, and others struggle to survive the invasion of Earth by Martians in 1894.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Press 1964
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2005
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Summary: Twenty-one-year-old Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life, and when her father forbids her from attending a fashionable ball, she decides to leave her family home and make a fresh start in London.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1909
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Summary: The English village of Bramblehurst is intimidated by a mysterious stranger whose face is completely wrapped in bandages.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 1992
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Summary: A chilling story of the invasion of Earth by Martians. Mass evacuation begins in panic as nations unite in an effort to repel the aliens.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1998
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WELWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Contents: The time machine.--The island of Dr. Moreau.--The invisible man.--The war of the worlds.--The first men in the moon.--The food of the gods.--In the days of the comet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avenel Books : distributed by Crown Publishers 1978
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1996
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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 TIMPalma, Felix J.
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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALSummary: After taking in her medical school colleague, who has become invisible, a widow witnesses his gradual descent into madness. As he schemes to unleash a reign of terror and murder, she must find a way to stop him from wreaking havoc across the city.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Trinity Creative 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD FEASummary: Collection of classic science fiction films.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALBarry, Gene
Summary: Martians invade a small town in 1950s California.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2020