LitMinds Book Club
September 10 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm CDT
Join us for the LitMinds Book Club at Gemini Ink. We’re reading H.G. Wells’s novellas The War of the Worlds, and The Invisible Man.
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The Invisible Man is the startling tale of a man who uncovers the ultimate secret of invisibility and with it — instead of power and wealth — his own destruction.
The War of the Worlds has stirred the imaginations of countless readers — and writers. The first novel to describe the Menace from Space — in the form of a calamitous invasion from Mars– it also gave the first detailed description of mechanized warfare and introduced the world to the terrifying weapon known as the Heat-Ray.
by Elliott & Fry, sepia half-tone reproduction of a photograph, 1901
The son of a professional cricketer and a lady’s maid, H. G. Wells (1866-1946) served apprenticeships as a draper and a chemist’s assistant before winning a scholarship to the prestigious Normal School of Science in London. While he is best remembered for his groundbreaking science fiction novels, including The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and The Island of Doctor Moreau, Wells also wrote extensively on politics and social matters and was one of the foremost public intellectuals of his day.
