Things to Come

The late Leon Stover, professor emeritus at the Illinois Institute of Technology, was the first to bring science fiction to the college curriculum and was the author of numerous landmarks of intellectual history. He lived in Chicago.

“Wells’s masterpieces get the red-carpet treatment here in these luxurious editions...academic collections supporting English departments should definitely invest in this volume”—Library Journal; “Stover is to be thanked for his years of Wellsian scholarship”—Public Library Quarterly; “Stover, by presenting the intellectual underpinnings of Wells’ work, has provided a powerful tool for understanding his writings, one sees them more deeply, without losing that earlier sense-of-wonder that originally opened the vistas of the young reader’s mind...a crucial guide to these classics of science fiction”—Fosfax; “two cheers for Stoverism...formidable scholarship...serious students of Wells would be foolish to ignore ‘Stoverism’”—The Wellsian; “Stover should be commended for a painstaking and meticulous editorial commentary”—Utopian Studies; “extensively annotated and analyzed by Stover...annotations are filled with insights into Wells’ writings and philosophy”—C&RL News.

• Table of ContentsPreface     Introduction      1. The Title      2. The Text      3. The Story      4. Future Perfect      5. Left and Right      6. Days to Come      Things to Come (1935)      (Annotated text of the London first edition)      AppendicesI. The Things to Come Press Book, by Leon Stover      II. “The Silliest Film: Will Machinery Make Robots of Men?” (1927), by H.G. Wells      III. “The Land Ironclads” (1903), by H.G. Wells      IV. “The Queer Story of Brownlow’s Newspaper” (1932), by H.G. Wells      Bibliography: Stover on Wells      Index