Cette édition est un reucueil de 11 nouvelles de Herbert George Welles surnommé le Père de la science-fiction. Retrouvez les nouvelles suivantes:
L’étoile
Dans l’abîme
L’oeuf de cristal
Le nouvel accélérateur
L’histoire de Plattner
Le corps volé
Sous le bistouri
Un rêve d’armageddon
Un étrange phénomène
La porte dans le mur
Mr Skelmersdale au pays des fées
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Born in 1866 in Bromley, England, to a poor family, Herbert George Wells began as an apprentice at the age of 14, but educated himself on his own, received a scholarship (1884), and specialized in biology at the University of London, from which he graduated in 1888.
Having become a teacher, but still without money, he will ask journalism for additional resources.
His first book is a work of biology, his second a novel: La Machine à explorer le temps (1895), which was an immediate success.
One of the pioneers, with Jules Verne, of the novel of anticipation, Wells is also a polemist, believing in progress through science.
These trends are reflected throughout a work that includes nearly 50 novels, tales, short stories and essays.
H. G. Wells died in London on August 13, 1946.