H.G. Wells — Downloaded Texts Index
Downloaded from Project Gutenberg. Public domain.
Files
| File | Title | Year | Words (approx) | Source |
tales-of-space-and-time.txt | Tales of Space and Time | 1899 | ~80,000 | Gutenberg #27365 |
country-of-the-blind-and-other-stories.txt | The Country of the Blind and Other Stories | 1911 | ~170,000 | Gutenberg #11870 |
Contents: Tales of Space and Time
- “The Crystal Egg” — A crystal in a London antique shop that provides visions of Mars. A paired crystal on a Martian mast enables two-way observation. Wells proposes the crystal was sent to Earth by Martians for surveillance. The clearest pre-Tolkien expression of the Palantír concept.
- “The Star” — A celestial body approaches Earth, causing catastrophe. Observed from Mars, the damage to Earth is noted clinically.
- “A Story of the Stone Age” — Prehistoric narrative. Not relevant.
- “A Story of the Days to Come” — Future London dystopia. Tangentially relevant as predictive programming.
- “The Man Who Could Work Miracles” — Man discovers he can alter reality by will. Vril-adjacent.
Contents: The Country of the Blind and Other Stories
Key stories for this research:
- “The Crystal Egg” (reprint) — see above
- “The Plattner Story” — Gottfried Plattner blown into the Fourth Dimension by chemical explosion. Can see our world but cannot interact. People pass through him. His left and right sides are reversed on return — physical proof of displacement.
- “The Country of the Blind” — Hidden valley civilization. Relevant as hidden/underground civilization motif.
- “The New Accelerator” — Drug that speeds perception so the world appears frozen. Time manipulation.
- “The Remarkable Case of Davidson’s Eyes” — Davidson’s vision is displaced to a South Sea island — he sees another place in real time while physically present elsewhere. Pure remote viewing.
- “A Dream of Armageddon” — Man experiences future catastrophe via persistent dream-visions. Dream as temporal viewing device.
Key Quotes
“The Crystal Egg”
“Either that Mr. Cave’s crystal was in two worlds at once, and that, while it was carried about in one, it remained stationary in the other, which seems altogether absurd; or else that it had some peculiar relation of sympathy with another and exactly similar crystal in this other world, so that what was seen in the interior of the one in this world was, under suitable conditions, visible to an observer in the corresponding crystal in the other world; and vice versa.”
“I believe the crystal on the mast in Mars and the crystal egg of Mr. Cave’s to be in some physical, but at present quite inexplicable, way en rapport, and we both believe further that the terrestrial crystal must have been—possibly at some remote date—sent hither from that planet, in order to give the Martians a near view of our affairs.”
“The Plattner Story”
“Two of the boys, gesticulating, walked one after the other clean through him! Neither manifested the slightest consciousness of his presence.”
“The curious inversion of Plattner’s right and left sides is proof that he has moved out of our space into what is called the Fourth Dimension.”
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