by Aseem Gupta | Dec 26, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
H. G. Wells’s A Moth (Genus Unknown) is a story about what happens when intellectual rivalry stops being a professional relationship and becomes the structure of a person’s identity. Hapley, a brilliant but combative entomologist, spends years defining himself against...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 16, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
H. G. Wells published The Argonauts of the Air in 1895, at a moment when heavier-than-air flight remained an experimental dream rather than an established technology. Eight years would pass before the Wright brothers’ first successful powered, controlled flight in...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 6, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
H. G. Wells’s The Flowering of the Strange Orchid begins with an almost comic wish: Winter-Wedderburn, a comfortable but profoundly uneventful middle-aged man, would like something remarkable to happen to him. What he gets is a rare orchid that flowers beautifully,...
