> 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. [...]

Well, as long as we're talking about Wells, I might as well ask. H.G. Wells wrote The Invisible Man, and several sequels in book and movie form were derived from it, including the 1933 movie of the same name as well as the latest attempt with Kevin Bacon. I just wanted to know: in all this time, has ANYONE ever come up with a reasonable SF plot twist to explain why the Invisible Man wouldn't be *blind*?

After all, he's got invisible corneas which won't refract light, and invisible retinas which wouldn't be impinged by the unfocused light. Not to mention an invisible optic chiasma which can't transduce the signals.... You get the picture.

Even those strange deep sea creatures which have the ability to see, and yet their bodies are mostly "transparent" in water, are particularly notable for their little black and silver eyes floating around. Weird.

Wolf "transparency, not invisibility of" spirit