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...took five hours to fly from Moscow to Helsinki in a Soviet DC-3. But I found myself in an atmosphere so hauntingly reminiscent of Europe in 1939 that I had the weird feeling that what I had really climbed into at Moscow's airfield was a Wellsian time machine which whisked me back nine years. There is the same excitement, of alternate pessimism and hopefulness, the same underlying feeling of a great overall drifting into disaster...
...Garden of Eden. The second part is second-rate drawing-room Shaw, and most of the rest is cerebral claptrap in settings of 2170 A.D., 3000 A.D. and 31,920 A.D. If the comic spirit were not alive in these scenes they would almost fall into the class of Wellsian monstrosity...
Most of the eight short stories in The Great Fog are as weird as this one. Bearded, erudite Author Henry Fitzgerald Heard is a masterly exponent of the Doylian detective story and the Wellsian, pseudoscientific fantasy. Writing under the name of Gerald Heard, he is also a distinguished British mystic (Pain, Sex and Time; The Ascent of Humanity...
...honest poet has no choice, however, but to show the illusion-loving man-in-the-street that today the beauty he dreams of has become a Wellsian, moonlit scene of desolation-a "lava plateau . . . fissured with chasms" and dotted with extinct volcanoes. Instead of a credible faith, this frozen land offers nothing but a thousand contradictory ways of life, centered around the false face of "the huge stuffed bird of happiness" and the "black stone on which the bones are cracked." Only "among the ruins and the bones" can man hear "the real Word which is our only raison...
...London's Tribune was moved to a Wellsian note by a rumor that a German super-rocket bomb, launched two weeks ago, had not yet been heard from. Said the Tribune, in interplanetary vein: "If that world [hit by the runaway rocket] happens to be inhabited by people who have reached our own level of 'civilization,' they may regard it as an act of hostility. . . .Are we on the eve of war between worlds before we have got ourselves tidied up on earth...