Topic > The War of the Worlds - 1631

In the works of HG Wells, The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine; these were said to be his greatest published novels. The fictional 1895 invasion of Earth by aliens from Mars was depicted in The War of the Worlds, as in The Time Machine creation was a time machine to travel to the past and present (many books, par. 1). Wells referred to the first appearance of an alien in the novel War of the Worlds as being considered the first time travel in The Time Machine. “A large, grayish, rounded mass, perhaps the size of a bear, rose slowly and laboriously from the cylinder. As it swelled and caught the light, it glistened like wet skin. Two large dark eyes stared at me fixedly. There was a mouth under the eyes, whose lipless rim trembled and panted and dripped saliva" (Wells, 20). In The Time Machine, the time traveler “questions” a widely held notion about time (Doyle) . This area of ​​the novel shows the intelligence of H. G. Wells and how he anticipated future life. Quote: "There is no difference between time and any of the three dimensions of space except that our consciousness moves along it. " (Wells, 4). HG Wells was one of the founding fathers of science fiction and was deeply committed to dedicating his creations to the science fiction community. Wells was a great science fiction writer of the twentieth century; he contributed great mysterious ideas to the culture of science fiction since in his writing, Anticipation (1901), he anticipated what the world would be like in the twenty-first century (Merriman, par. 7). He also thought that successful airplanes would arrive by the year two thousand, as well as creating visually the process of accelerating radioactive decay; producing bombs that will explode without more...... middle of paper......Then I noticed the clock. A moment ago, it seemed, it had been about a minute past ten; it was almost half past three now! I took a breath, gritted my teeth, grabbed the starter lever with both hands and took off with a thud. The laboratory dimmed and became dark. Mrs Watchett came in and walked, apparently without seeing me, towards the garden door. I imagine it took her about a minute to cross the place, but to me it seemed like she was hurtling across the room like a rocket. I pushed the lever to its extreme position. The night came like the turning off of a lamp, and in another moment tomorrow came. The laboratory grew dim and foggy, then dimmer. The next day the night came black, then the day again, the night again, the day again, faster and faster. A swirling murmur filled my ears, and a strange, silent confusion descended upon my mind., 2).