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    Tales of Space and Time

    By H. G. Wells

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    Tales of Space and Time collects together two novellas and three short stories by the great science fiction writer H. G. Wells. First published in 1899, this absorbing and stimulating read contains The Crystal Egg (short story), The Star (short story), A Story of the Stone Age (novella), A Story of the Days To Come (novella), and The Man Who Could Work Miracles (short story).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSheba Blake Publishing
    Release dateMay 19, 2015
    ISBN9781304666161
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    H. G. Wells

    H.G. Wells is considered by many to be the father of science fiction. He was the author of numerous classics such as The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The War of the Worlds, and many more. 

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    • 5/5
      The more I learn about Fitzgerald the more I am sad that he did not realise his impact during his own lifetime. I guess that those who contribute the most never do. I enjoyed the author's little introductions to each story which give a nice little preface. Every story in this is a gem, even if some of them are repeats from other FSF collations. I am still unable to comprehend how FSF could fathom, in his early twenties, what it was like to be an age he never reached. Overall, brilliant.
    • 4/5
      Over the last 10 minutes I must have switched between 3 and 4 stars about 20 times - but I did really like most of the short stories.

      Fitzgerald has a way of creating the not always endearing but nevertheless interesting characters in his short stories that are sadly missing in his novels (The Great Gatsby excepted).
    • 2/5
      I'm not a big fan of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction so I originally purchased this audiobook to help me get through the reading of a print copy. I did manage to finish both the Penguin Classics paperback edition (which includes both of Fitzgerald's 1st and 2nd short story collections "Flappers and Philosophers" and "Tales of the Jazz Age") and this audiobook edition which includes only the 2nd book.The audiobook reading was quite stiff with very little attempt to give a voice performance. The stories "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "O Russet Witch!" were some of the few exceptions with their minimal efforts at elderly voices. None of the other stories had a very dramatized reading. I noticed that a reference to Oscar Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" was pronounced as "The Ballad of Reading Goal" i.e. as in football goal, so obviously no research was done to learn that "gaol" is an antiquated spelling of the word "jail".I also noticed that, compared to the print edition, the sentence "It's very white of you." is censored to say "It's very nice of you." in the "O Russet Witch!" story. That seemed a bit odd in a book where the whole racist Shangri-La story of "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" is included verbatim.At $1.95 for the member's price on Audible.com, this is definitely a bargain for a 10+ hour book. You get what you pay for though.
    • 4/5
      I really like Fitzgerald's writing, and his short stories were very interesting. The last few were a little repetitive, I thought, concerning as they did sad young couples with young children falling apart, but overall there was a very interesting mix of New York socialite stories, stories with some very strange, almost fantastical events (such as "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "O Russet Witch"). My favorite of the collection is probably "The Lees of Happiness", which I found very moving and interesting. I'll definitely keep reading Fitzgerald's short stories after this.
    • 4/5
      A series of unconnected short stories and plays, most notably containing "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

      If you've only seen the movie, the premise is similar but the story is a bit different. I like the short story much better.

      Most of the stories are pretty good, some not so much. It's a reasonably quick read.
    • 3/5
      This short story collection was written very early in Fitzgerald's career (1922), and you can tell. there are moments of brilliance, such as "Oh Russet Witch" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." There are moments of great comedy, such as "The Camel's Back," and there are moments of Hollywood blockbuster type action, such as "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz." There is also "May Day," which is on the verge of greatness but could have used some fine tuning. Unfortunately, there are also several stories that a more mature author would have never allowed to see the light of day. These are stories that were over-indulgent moments from a young author who admits in the introduction of the book that they were written more to entertain himself than anything else. You can see the burgeoning brilliance that will write The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night, but it isn't quite here yet with the exception of a few stories.
    • 2/5
      Contains five equally short short-stories, titled: 'Echoes of the Jazz Age', 'My Lost City', '"Show Mr. and Mrs. F. to Number -"', 'The Crack-up', 'Early Success'. Although the book is so short it is still a slow read. The first tells about the 1920s. The second is about New York and the way he feels about that city. The third is the travel guide with a list of hotels and places (mostly in France) where Fitzgerald and his wife resided during the years. Four tells (in three episodes) about his alleged cracking up, and the last one is about his early success as a writer. This is certainly not classic stuff, I'm glad it was as short as it was or I would have had a very hard time in finishing it...
    • 2/5
      I read this collection solely for "Diamond as Big as the Ritz", which is one of my fave short stories. The last two in this collection are why too jumpy and unsure, but besides that, the stories are all pretty dang solid. Oh Fitzgerald.