> Well, in case some of you didn't know, I had to read some short stories by an author of my choice for a repot that I have to do. Well, I chose H. G. Wells, and here's my anaylsis of the stories that I read. My instructor changed the required number of stories from 6 to 4, so I'll only be using the first four for my report. I'll probably post my report sometime next week once I get it finished.
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> The Time Machine- Great story, I loved it. I hope most people know the basic plot of this story by now. One man developes a time machine and goes far into the future to seeming find a utopia, but its not as it appears...
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> The Flowering of the Strange Orcid- It's an ok story (the best story about a plant that I've ever read). A man buys a unique flower at an auction I, believe, and the can't wait until it blooms, but wait and see what happens after it blooms.
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> The Man Who Could Work Miracles- Another good story. A man is somehow given the power to make anything happen. Whether it be breakfast or transporting a man to Hades, there is nothing this man can't do. But this man almost destroys the whole planet in the process.
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> The Diamond Maker- Another good story. Man has always dreamed of a way to make diamonds. One of the characters in this story has discovered how, but in the process, has lost everything
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> And the two other stories:
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> The Stolen Bacillus- I didn't think this was too great. I didn't understand it that well. Although that could have been because I was watching tv at the time...
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> The Valley of the Spiders- This one was ok too. Three man enter a valley after a girl, and something strange happens to them.
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> Well, that's all. Sorry about the last two. I can't remember them too well (although I could read them again). I would have loved to read War of the World or The First Men In the Moon for this report, but I didn't have the time. I plan on reading them before I return this book, though.
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War of the Worlds is great, one of my favorite sci-fi books of all time. The visuals that I see in my mind's eye when I read it war fantastic. It never occured to me how alien 3 legs is in our world. Almost everything comes in two or four, or at least an even number. I'd love to see a new War of the Worlds movie done, sticking closer to the book and useing modern special effects.

Also you should find a recording of Orsen Wells radio broadcast of an adaption of H.G.'s story. I heard it on Halloween some years ago. Very cool.

And if you really like the story look for an anthology called War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches. It is a book os short stories telling the adventures of other famous people who were alive at the time H.G. Wells's story is based. An old Mark Twain, a young Albert Einstine, hilarious at some points, scary at others. I'd give it 3½ out fo 5 stars.

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