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 The Man Who Could
Work Miracles
- The Supernatural Tales of
- H.G. Wells
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- Introduction by Brian
Stableford
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- H.G.
Wells (1866-1946) is popularly known as the author of
classic science fiction novellas such as The War of the
Worlds, The Invisible Man and
The Time Machine, but it is less
well-known that his prodigious imagination also turned to
the supernatural. As with his science fiction, Wells
would conceive a remarkable idea and then follow through
the rational repercussions of the proposal.
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- The
stories collected here take the supernatural from the
borders of science fiction in tales such as 'The Plattner
Story' in which a fourth dimension is conceived as a
realm of the dead, to the boundaries of outright horror
in 'The Strange Orchid', through to the frontiers of
fantasy in 'The Man Who Could Work Miracles'. In Wells'
speculative work 'genres' mean very little, however, and
'The Story of the late Mr Elvesham' and 'The Door in the
Wall' are such perfectly conceived and faultlessly
executed tales that they deserve to stand alongside
classic works in Wells' canon.
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- The
short stories of H.G. Wells have been overshadowed by his
longer science-fiction works, but contain just as many
original and archetypal ideas. They are as satisfying to
read now as when they were written a century ago, and
have been acknowledged by Borges and Nabokov, among
others. The Man Who Could Work
Miracles is confirmation of the imaginative
genius of H.G. Wells.
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- Contents: 'Introduction', 'The Devotee of
Art', 'Walcote', 'The Flowering of the Strange Orchid',
'The Lord of the Dynamos', 'The Temptation of Harringay',
'The Moth', 'Pollock and the Porroh Man', 'Under the
Knife', 'The Plattner Story', 'The Red Room', 'The Story
of the Late Mr Elvesham', 'The Apple', 'The Crystal Egg',
'The Presence by the Fire', 'The Man Who Could Work
Miracles', 'The Stolen Body', 'A Vision of Judgment', 'A
Dream of Armageddon', 'The New Accelerator', 'The
Inexperienced Ghost', 'Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland',
'The Truth About Pyecraft', 'The Magic Shop', 'The
Country of the Blind', 'The Door in the Wall', 'The
Beautiful Suit', 'The Wild Asses of the Devil', 'The
Story of the Last Trump', 'The Pearl of Love', 'The Queer
Story of Brownlow's Newspaper', 'Answer to
Prayer'.
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- Front
cover illustration by Mike Kerins
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- The
Man Who Could Work Miracles is a sewn hardback of 363+
xiv pages. Limited to 300 copies.
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- Price
£35/$70 inc. p&p.
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- ISBN
1-905784-00-7 / 978-1-905784-00-4
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- Review:
- Those
who consider Wells only a great SF writer will be
pleasantly surprised by this collection of stories, apt
to charm both the devotees of fantastic literature and
the regular readers of horror and ghost fiction.
Mario Guslandi, SF
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23rd March 2008
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