Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
Español
Description
Un joven científico, para asombro e incredulidad de sus colegas y otros expertos, ha desarrollado una máquina que le permite hacer realidad uno de los sueños más antiguos de la humanidad: vivir en una época distinta a la suya.
H. G. Wells logra con su libro La máquina del tiempo, el primer relato, y el más acabado, de viajes en el tiempo. En los momentos fundacionales de la ciencia ficción aborda con maestría uno de los temas más recurrentes...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This frighteningly prophetic tale from the progenitor of modern science fiction remains as powerful today as when it was written-more than a century ago. Firebrand activist Graham falls into a drug-induced sleep in 1897 London-and is stunned to wake in the year 2100 to a world he does not know. But the world knows him. When word spreads that the "Sleeper" has awakened, it rocks the foundations of what the planet has become: a dystopian existence...
Author
Language
English
Description
Read the early sci-fi classic in English and French. This work of speculative fiction takes a scientist to a dystopian wasteland eons in the past. There, the time traveller witnesses a conflict known in any era, including our own. Odéon Bilingue makes reading in two languages fun and simple. All paragraphs are numbered and appropriately placed side-by-side. Save for a few exceptions, all paragraphs begin and end on the same page, thus eliminating...
Author
Language
English
Description
Written in 1924, The Dream tells the story of a man from a Utopian future who dreams the entire life of an Englishman from birth to his untimely death. Weaving the lives of Sarnac, a biologist from the year 4,000 A.D., and Harry, a man whose life was ended too soon, Wells creates a mystical connection between two very different time periods. This classic science-fiction novel with a splash of romance has captivated audiences for generations.
Author
Language
English
Description
"For an indefinite time I clung to the machine as it swayed and vibrated, quite unheeding how I went, and when I brought myself to look at the dials again I was amazed to find where I had arrived."
Embark on a journey hundreds of thousands of years into the future on a homemade time machine! The Time Traveler discovers what he first perceives as a perfect pastoral landscape inhabited by an evolved form of humanity, but soon he discovers the dark...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When The Sleeper Awakes" is a dystopian science fiction novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest on his bank accounts, he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realized, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities. "Time Machine" is a dystopian story of time traveller who witnesses...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Time Machine and The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the...
Author
Language
English
Description
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique SF collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.
Contents:
H. G. Wells:
The Time Machine
Ayn Rand:
Anthem
Mark Twain:
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
H. Beam Piper:
Flight from Tomorrow
Philip K. Dick:
The Skull
The Variable Man
Fritz Leiber:
The Big Time
Andre Norton:
Key Out of Time
The Time Traders
The Defiant Agents
Lester...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Jackson County Oregon can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request