Magic Transistor

Adolf Hoffmeister. Illustrations for Czech translation of The First Men in the Moon, by H.G. Wells. 1964.  

Frank R. Paul. War of the Worlds. 1927.

William Cameron Menzies. Things to Come. 1936. 

Henrique Alvim Corrêa, Livre Premier, L'arrivée des Martiens (H.G. Wells War of the Worlds), 1906.

Paul Laffoley. I, Robur: Master of the World. 1968.  

Many of Laffoley's enduring concepts are prophetically Incorporated into his earliest works. This one is from the late 1960s and has all the usual themes - mega and nano engineering, physically alive architecture, energy devices, genetic engineering, transdisciplinary convergence, the UFO geometry, klein bottles and the Bauharoque/Utopic themes. The painting is an homage to Paul's favorite sci-fi film, 'The Day the Earth Stood Still', (which was based on 'Master of the World' published in 1904, one of the last novels by French pioneer science fiction writer, Jules Verne.) This is combined with Paul's first description of what they now call a 'space elevator' except extending all the way to the moon, and connecting the Earth to the Moon with a double-layer orbital geodesic-sphere around each planet.              -Michael Coleman

Sunday October 31st 1938.

The War of the Worlds.

The Mercury Theater On The Air Presents: H.G. Wells War of the Worlds (Hosted by Orson Welles, October 30, 1938) Columbia Broadcasting Systems.

Frank R. Paul. War of the Worlds, Amazing Stories. 1927.

Amazing Stories. H.G. Wells, T.S. Stribling, Edgar Rice Burroughs. 1932.

Amazing Stories, 1926.

Amazing Stories. Experimenter Publishing Company, New York. 1926. 

Amazing Stories. H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Edgar Allen Poe. 1926.

The Invisible Man (1933)

The Invisible Man [H.G. Wells]; Dell Publications, Nd.

H.G. Wells. The War of the Worlds. Penguin Books. 1964.

Cover drawing by Virgil Burnett first published in Penguin 1946, 1960s reprint pictured.