Taming cannibals : race and the Victorians / Patrick Brantlinger. by Brantlinger, Patrick, 1941-

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Beyond Holy Russia : the life and times of Stephen Graham / Michael Hughes. by Hughes, Michael, 1961-

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Speaking of monsters : a teratological anthology / edited by Caroline Joan S. Picart and John Edgar Browning.

Table of Contents: “…"Nature Abhors Normality": Theories of the Monstrous from Aristotle to The X-Files (1993-2002) / Kathleen Long -- Monster Spawn of Animal Experimentation in the Early Work of H. G. Wells: On the Containment of Psychopathic Violence as Preliminary to the Onset of the Capacity for Mourning / Laurence A. …”

Dynamics of World History. by Dawson, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…Karl Marx and the Dialectic of History; 5. H.G. Wells and the Outline of History; 6. Oswald Spengler and the Life of Civilizations; 7. …”
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William Morris and the idea of community : romance, history and propaganda, 1880-1914 / Anna Vaninskaya. by Vaninskaya, Anna, 1980-

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Money, Speculation and Finance in Contemporary British Fiction. by Marsh, Nicky

Table of Contents: “…Money in the Twentieth Century; I: From the Gold Standard to the EuroDollar: H.G. Wells''s Tono Bungay and Ian Fleming''s Goldfinger; II: Crime and Casino Capitalism: Paul Erdman''s The Billion Dollar Sure Thing and Jocelyn Davey''s A Treasury Alarm; 2 Sound Money: Thatcher, Gender and the State; Introduction. …”
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Impossible purities : blackness, femininity, and Victorian culture / Jennifer DeVere Brody. by Brody, Jennifer DeVere

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The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction. by Bould, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Problems of definition; Overview; The emergence of SF; Enrolling SF; Competing histories and definitions; Edgar Allan Poe; Jules Verne; H.G. Wells; The literature of cognitive estrangement; Conclusion; 2. …”
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100 Must-Read Classic Novels. by Rennison, Nick

Table of Contents: “…WALTER SCOTTJOHN STEINBECK; STENDHAL; LAWRENCE STERNE; ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON; ITALO SVEVO; JONATHAN SWIFT; JUNICHIRO TANIZAKI; WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY; LEO TOLSTOY; ROBERT TRESSELL; ANTHONY TROLLOPE; IVAN TURGENEV; MARK TWAIN; SIGRID UNDSET; VOLTAIRE; EVELYN WAUGH; H.G. WELLS; EDITH WHARTON; OSCAR WILDE; P.G. WODEHOUSE; VIRGINIA WOOLF; Ã#x89;MILE ZOLA; INDEX.…”
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Astounding wonder : imagining science and science fiction in interwar America / John Cheng. by Cheng, John

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Victorian literature and the Victorian state : character and governance in a liberal society / Lauren M.E. Goodlad. by Goodlad, Lauren M. E.

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Good faith collaboration : the culture of Wikipedia / Joseph Michael Reagle, Jr. ; foreword by Lawrence Lessig. by Reagle, Joseph M., Jr

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The legacy of Sacco and Vanzetti / by Louis Joughin and Edmund M. Morgan ; introduction by Arthur M. Schlesinger. by Joughin, Louis

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War of the Worlds. by Wells, H. G.

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Bernard Shaw and Beatrice Webb on poverty and equality in the Modern World, 1905--1914 / Peter Gahan. by Gahan, Peter

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Beastly journeys : travel and transformation at the fin de siècle / Tim Youngs. by Youngs, Tim, 1961-

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Science Fiction Criticism : an Anthology of Essential Writings. by Latham, Rob

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1 DEFINITIONS AND BOUNDARIES -- 1 Editorial: A new sort of magazine / Hugo Gernsback -- 2 Preface to The Scientific Romances / H.G. Wells -- 3 On the writing of speculative fiction / Robert A. …”
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100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels : Bloomsbury Good Reading Guides. by Andrews, Stephen E.

Table of Contents: “…VAN VOGT; JACK VANCE; JULES VERNE; VERNOR VINGE; KURT VONNEGUT; IAN WATSON; H.G. WELLS; KATE WILHELM; JACK WILLIAMSON; CONNIE WILLIS; GENE WOLFE; JOHN WYNDHAM; ROGER ZELAZNY; SCIENCE FICTION AWARDS; A BRIEF GLOSSARY OF SFTERMS; INDEX.…”
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Who Are We? Old, New, and Timeless Answers from Core Texts.

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The real history of science fiction. a BBC/BBC America co-production ; produced & directed by Robert Murphy.

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