H. G. Wells 
Tales of Space and Time (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

      Published in 1904, this collection of five of Wells’s most famous science fiction tales includes “The Crystal Egg, ” in which a shop owner finds a strange crystal egg and is able to see Mars; “The Star, ” in which the approach of a blazing comet forebodes worldwide catastrophes; “The Man Who Could Work Miracles, ” a fantasy-comedy in which George Mc Whirter Fotheringay discovers he can have any wish he wants, only to cause cataclysmic destruction when he wishes to stops the earth’s rotation; and two novellas: “A Story of the Stone Age, ” A Story of the Days to Come.”

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