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I always knew it wasn't Neil Armstrong!!

Advantages: Classic space fantasy
Disadvantages: Rather dated - but fun

Before I start reviewing the book 'The First Men in the Moon' by H.G. Wells I would like to just talk a little of the differences between Jules Verne and H.G.Wells regarding science-fiction.(remembering that this debate was at a time when science fict ...

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Review of The First Men in the Moon - H. G. Wells

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First men in the Moon

Advantages: Great read
Disadvantages: Nothing

First men in the moon. Author - H G Wells. Information; ~~~~~~~ I had actually heard this book on an audio tape several years ago, the audio had the voices of Leonard Nimoy (Spock) and John De Lancie (Q) The film is a cracker! ...

Maximus-Qualitus 18.02.2009 · Read full review
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H.G.Wells goes to the MOON.

Advantages: A PAGE TURNER !
Disadvantages: NOTHING

First men in the moon. = A retro kind of story and with certain innocence to it. Arnold Bedford classes himself as a capitalist, unfortunately at the moment he is a little broke. Then his luck changes, he meets Prof Joseph Cavor. C ...

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A good read - and only sligtly wrong

Advantages: Deep, Well Written and psudo-sciance at it's best
Disadvantages: Dated now (but that makes it more interesting in my mind)

...This book was written before powered flight was the norm, before the jet engin and even bofore flight to the moon was considered a slim possiblity ever. Well's useing his normal omnipitant narrator tells the tale of an inventer and his frend as they piol ...

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The Best Dr Who Book I've Ever Read!

Advantages: Informative, fun, witty, warm book
Disadvantages: Long scripts can be a bit tiring to read

...I have been a fan of Doctor Who since I was a young child in the 1970s and over the years, I have read probably hundreds of Doctor Who related books - biographies, autobiographies, novelisations and so on. But I can honestly say, The Writer's Tale is the ...

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Review of Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - Russell T. Davies & Benjamin Cook

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