ABOUT H. G. WELLS
Reading edition
by Daniel McPhail
A short while ago, H. G. Wells had a dream of the future which inspired the writing of his new semi-fantasy book, "The Shape of Things to Come." It is an outline of the next century and a half, forecasting a World State eventually after destructive wars. Published by Macmillan.
Wells writes in an almost invisible small hand.
A slightly demented person has been suing him for a decade, charging that he stole his "Outline of History" from an unpublished manuscript of his. Wells has had all the bills to pay, to say nothing of the annoyance.
Wells and Arthur Machen were both asked to contribute to an abortive magazine published in the '90s, and in one of the few issues appeared Wells' "The Cone"—Machen's didn't get in because the magazine expired. Wells' "The Time Machine," and Machen's effective horror story, "The Three Imposters" were both quite in the limelight at the time. The short lived magazines were somewhat of a forerunner of the modern weird magazines. Machen was the subject of many amusing attacks, more fully reported in his autobiographical "Far Off Things" and "Things Near and Far," even being accused of being deliberately unpleasant by some prudish ladies' magazine for his "Great God Pan."
The three H. G. Wells stories featured in Weird Tales during 1925 and 1926 were reprints, though not mentioned as such when published. They were written about a quarter of a century before.
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I'm proud to say that my collection is a large and fairly complete one. I have every science fiction magazine (printing all-stf) that has appeared. I have hundreds of fantasy stories that have appeared in Munsey publications since 1905. I have more than a hundred Weird Tales lacking only the first two or three volumes. I have hundreds of fantasy excerpts from magazines that occasionally print fantasies, such as Blue Book, Popular, Complete, Short Stories, American Boy, etc., etc. I also have quite a few tales of a fantastic nature that have appeared in English magazines. All in all, I think I'm justified when I say that I have one of the best collections of fantasy fiction in the country, even if it hasn't every science fiction story that ever appeared.