H. G. Wells: Hope and Fear

Blazing Worlds! Science Fiction by Women A public roundtable discussion with accompanying exhibition that celebrates the lives and works of female authors of Science Fiction

The War Of The Worlds: what to expect from the BBC version The BBC adaptation of H. G. Wells' classic is finally airing from the 17th of November. Here's what we learned on a visit to the set...

http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/tv/the-war-of-the-worlds/56640/the-war-of-the-worlds-first-look-at-new-bbc-adaptation

The War Of The Worlds: first look at new BBC adaptation Eleanor Tomlinson and Rafe Spall star in the Beeb's brand new adaptation of H. G. Wells' classic novel. Here's your first look...

in 1938 a radio broadcast by Orson Welles of a dramatization of the HG Wells novel, The War of the Worlds, caused a furor, many of its millions of listeners taking it for a factual report of the invasion of New Jersey by Martians.

“This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.”

Sci-Fi Books that Predicted the Future – Electric Literature The future is tough to foresee. Ask any stock-picker, or the writers of Space 1999. Imagining it is fun, though, and occasionally fiction authors will get something right. Possibly because the…

On the 4 October, Professor Peter Beck will be coming to the School of Humanities to give a guest lecture on ‘H.G. Wells, the Time Traveller: Travelling Between Different Worlds over Time’. The talk will take place in the Dalhousie Building from 4pm and will include Q&A.

Professor Beck is the author of the definitive new study of the context and multi-media afterlives of Wells’s The War of the Worlds (Bloomsbury, 2016). So his talk promises to be a wonderful opportunity to listen to a leading international expert on one of the most visionary British writers of all time, who focused on possible human futures which continue to resonate in 21st Century culture.

The War of the Worlds First published in 1897, H.G. Wells's alien invasion narrative The War of the Worlds was a landmark work of science fiction and one that continues to be adapted and referenced in the 21st century. Chronicling the novel's contexts, its origins and its many multi-media adaptations, this book is a comp...

Dundee University will again be hosting a national "hub" for the Being Human Festival of the Humanities. Our focus this November will be Jonathan Swift at 350, with a particular interest in Gulliver's Travels. What do we have lined up? Take a sneak peek! Follow on Twitter.

Jonathan Swift At 350 Lost And Found Being Human Festival 2017 : Humanities : University of Dundee Jonathan Swift at 350: Lost and Found (Being Human Festival 2017) Published on Thu 7 Sep 2017 Join us for the Being Human Festival 2017 - 17-25 November The world’s greatest satirist, Jonathan Swift, turns 350 in November 2017. Lost amid a series of fantastical places, the narrator of his most famou...

H. G. Wells and the Natural World Emily Alder looks at the his early scientific romances and the mastery of nature

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0wYQ7HaNu4&feature=youtu.be

Martian Autopsy at the University of Dundee - Being Human 2016 - YouTube

In London next week? Come to the BEING HUMAN MASTERCLASS - Daniel Cook will be discussing the successes and failures of "H. G. Wells @ 150" and, in the evening reception, looking ahead to our next series during the official launch of the 2017 programme (cryptic spoiler: Hey, presto, we're Scotland's festival hub yet again!).

http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/8345