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Post by Killraven on Oct 16, 2004 15:43:30 GMT
Let's us just modify our posts so we look like we are super inteligent by using big words out of the dictionary! Yeah but you have to spell the small ones right first Krys! ;D I think Wells was an internationally bestselling author of his time - though no doubt Charles can confirm this!?
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Post by krys666 on Oct 16, 2004 18:12:05 GMT
Can he get used to the idea of cars insted of horses and carts? ;D ;D ;D I wounder what Wells would think to the idea of modern cars, mobile phones, jets, missiles, computers, the internet, cd's, dvd's, all-u-can-eat-buffets, and today's take on women and stuff like that*! *He might have like it!
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Oct 16, 2004 19:57:44 GMT
Don't forget Krys, Wells saw alot of our technological advances in his lifetime as he didn't die until 1946. With his vision I don't suppose most of the things we know now would be too much of a stretch for him, most of them being just advanced versions of things he would have seen for himself anyway.
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Post by krys666 on Oct 16, 2004 21:58:59 GMT
Yes you could say that for cars ect! And jets, just an advanced plane! But i mean very technological things! Like computers, modern ones! And computers that can fit into your hand! And robots (well, what we have!). And real sapce expolration, all those navigation things ect! Yes nearly all these things were in primitave stages when he was around! But i mean what would he think of: Online Shopping, Listen to music via internet (special music box !) Talking cars that know where to go! (Invisible navigator! ;D). ect...
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Post by Bayne on Oct 17, 2004 1:04:43 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]Wells predicted a good chunk of that technology in 'When the Sleeper Wakes' though slidewalks and flying foxes have unfortunatly not been taken up as a mass transit system [/glow]
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Post by Sam on Oct 22, 2004 22:16:50 GMT
By the way, Kryss, did you ask your form tutor what those words meant?
Sam
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Post by krys666 on Oct 22, 2004 23:37:42 GMT
No I didn't have the chace! What does it mean?? Please tell!!
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Post by Sam on Oct 23, 2004 17:13:26 GMT
Ask SGirl - She'll tell you
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Oct 23, 2004 19:22:59 GMT
I've solved this mystery in the other thread where you two were wittering on about this.
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Post by Sam on Oct 23, 2004 19:37:32 GMT
And I also stated, that it was way off! I do not Witter, by the way
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Post by krys666 on Oct 23, 2004 20:33:26 GMT
Any wotw or Wells related banter in Welsh Sam??? Who's SGirl???
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Post by krys666 on Oct 24, 2004 23:33:29 GMT
Can someone please tell me what that Fantastic Stories magazine thing was... It had Wells writing it or parts of it... And had some sci-fi stories in, Wotw sometimes popping up i think!!!
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Post by Bayne on Oct 27, 2004 21:55:26 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]For much of the 20th century, pulp fiction magazines were the mainstay of entertainment and the heartland of genres like science fiction.
Most authors published short stories, excerpts from novels or novels in serialised form in magazines like those, and many of the big names in sci-fi got their start in such magazines.
WotW would have been published as a reprinted 'scifi classic' as it would have been around for decades before the heyday of scifi pulp magazines.[/glow]
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Post by krys666 on Oct 28, 2004 13:00:07 GMT
Any for sale? Have they ever re-printed some???
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Xav
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Post by Xav on Mar 26, 2005 1:36:03 GMT
I would like to quote, just a little, from Well's "The Shape of Things to Come"...a book of profound imagination and social comment.
'between 1940 and 2059, in a little more than a century, this antiquated obdurate culture disappears. It and its Zionist sate, its kosher food, the Law and all the rest of its paraphanalia, were completly merged in the human community. The Jews were not suppressed; there was no extermination; there were world-wide pograms during the political and social breakdown of the Famished Fisties, but under the Tyranny (of the Air Dictatorship)there was never any specific persecution at all; yet they (the Jews) were educated out of their oddity and racial egotism in little more than three generations. Their attention was distracted from Moses and the Promise to Abraham and the delusion that God made his creation for them alone, and they were taught the truth agbout thie race. The world is as full as ever of men and women of Semitic origin, but they belong no more to "Israel" ' Please excuse my spelling mistakes, in part due to a damn technical problem....
I think this gives some indication of Well's attitude to Zionism, and its place in the future, which may be considerably different to what we envisage ourselves, at the moment.
After two thousand years of Diaspora, persecution, humility and homelessness, the present Jewish position surely be understandable. 'Thus far and no further' The actions of Israel do, in many cases, deserve criticism and debate. But consider; Israel is beset with enemies all round; what else could they do? Rely on America? A most unsuitable ally....reliable when once committed (the entry into both World Wars delayed by two years)but....always on the look out for Wall Street, it seems.
However...be that as it may...Well's had no particular axe to grind over Israel.
But he was a hell of a womaniser and apparently very attractive to some...well, good luck to him....
Altogether a fascinating man....
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Post by Amasov on Jun 14, 2005 1:12:36 GMT
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Post by mctoddridesagain on Jun 14, 2005 10:28:49 GMT
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Post by Charles on Jun 14, 2005 14:51:40 GMT
Must be ready to rerelease his scathing bio of Wells to uh, 'compliment' the movies... What timing! Either that or he's channeling Hilaire Belloc...
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Post by mctoddridesagain on Jun 14, 2005 18:03:45 GMT
Either way, it's starting to hot up over there on IMDB...
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Post by Amasov on Jun 14, 2005 18:13:50 GMT
Yes, dalbrech seems to take things too personally doesn't he.
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