H. G. Wells, “The Wheels of Chance: Bicycling Idyl”, 1896 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: H. G. Wells (1866-1946), “Meanwhile: The Picture of a Lady”, 1927 which was a utopian SciFi novel. The volume consists of two stories: “The Utopographer in the Garden”; and, “Advent”.
“The Utopographer in the Garden” contains thirteen (13) titled chapters shown BELOW.
“Advent” contains twenty-three (23) chapters listed BELOW.
Here I presented: H. G. Wells (1866-1946), “Meanwhile: The Picture of a Lady”, 1927which was utopian SciFi novel.
SUMMARY.
This novel is split into two parts: “The Utopographer in the Garden”; and, the “Advent”. The former is set on the Italian Riveria where the protagonist married, British couple Philip and Cynthia Rylands entertain guest. The latter, written largely in the form of letters between the Ryland couple during the husband’s trip to London, provides the commentary on the 1920’s British political landscape. The book is a detailed discussion of Utopia, Socialism and Communism in the mind of H. G. Wells.
The Englishman H. G. Wells and the French writer Jules Verne remain, arguably, the two most famous writers of science fiction. Their names are conventionally linked, as in this blog, although they never met, and in fact come from different generations (Verne was 38 when Wells was born).The books ABOVE are a timeline of SciFi; and, the dark-blue is Jules Verne & light-blue is H. G. Wells.
Other writers, such as Mary Shelley & Edgar Allen Poe (before Verne-Wells); and, Rudyard Kipling & Edgar Rice Burroughs (after Verne-Wells) helped establish the genre of SciFi, shown ABOVE.
The other French writer of this era Victor Hugo & Alexandre Dumas are not SciFi writers like Jules Verne. The writings in French of Victor Hugo, “Hunchback of Notre-Dame”, 1831 & Alexandre Dumas, “The Three Musketeers”, 1844 are not SciFi storytelling.
H. G. Wells, “The Wheels of Chance: Bicycling Idyl”, 1896 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
