thewherefores:

Perfect scene is perfect.

androidghost:

the Six Million Dollar Man

androidghost:

the Bionic Woman

The First Men in the Moon
H.G. Wells. Indianapolis, Bowen-Merrill, 1901.

Illustrated by E. Herring with 12 plates. (8vo) 18.5x12 cm. (7¼x4½”), original dark blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered and front cover illustration in gilt; dust jacket. First Edition, second state binding.

Exceptionally rare first edition in dust jacket. A milestone in modern science fiction. The Bowen-Merrill edition preceded the London edition by about one month. This is the Currey second state binding with “Bobbs Merrill” on the spine.

Bleiler comments, “After ‘The First Men in the Moon’, Wells’s science fiction novels are never quite the same” and that “the last and most complex [of Wells’s early scientific romances] is ‘The First Men in the Moon’. The two first men, Bedford and Cavor are well-contrasted, the civilization of the Selenites is excellent both as horror and satire; and the novel abounds with wonderful passages of unforced description at which Wells is unrivaled. This lovely book also contains much of Wells’s delightful humor; it has kept the joints of his discourse oiled to this day”.

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sciencefictionreader:

Elijah Bailey series - Isaac Asimov

• The Caves of Steel (1954)
• The Naked Sun (1957)
• The Robots of Dawn (1983)
• Robots and Empire (1985)

In The Caves of Steel and its sequels (the first of which is The Naked Sun), Asimov paints a grim situation of an Earth dealing with an extremely large population, and of luxury-seeking Spacers who limit birth so that each may have great wealth and privacy. Asimov, who was agoraphobic, did not himself find the lack of daylight grim. He mentioned that a reader asked him how he could have imagined such an existence with no sunlight. He related that it had not struck him until then that living perpetually indoors might be construed as unpleasant.

-wikipedia