Scientific and Horrific Stories

Scientific and Horrific StoriesScientific and Horrific Stories is a collection of short fiction by H. G. Wells. Despite his humble beginnings as the son of English servants, H. G. Wells would become one of the most revered writers of his day. His stories of adventure, utopia, and terror inspired such vastly different figures as Vladimir Nabokov, Winston Churchill, Jorge Luis Borges, and Sinclair Lewis. Many of his novels have been adapted for film, theater, radio, and television,

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sexual stereotypes and racial hypersexualization continue to affect many women of color who work in the sex industry

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the role it played in conceptions of English national identity

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these discussions have usually been treated as asides in a larger context