Talk:H. G. Wells bibliography

Film stories
I've created a separate section for these, as they occupy a unique sub-category in Wells's work, and certainly shouldn't be placed in non-fiction as Things to Come was. Nick Cooper 14:49, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

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The Open Conspiracy
Why isn't this title listed? --Ludvikus (talk) 19:26, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
 * It is listed. Have a look under "Non fiction". --Bruce1eetalk 04:56, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Project Gutenburg
I note that Cosprings removed the annotation indicating which titles are available on the Project Gutenburg site. I suspect this may have been for copyright reasons, as while some works are public domain in the US (the standard Wikipedia works to), all of Wells's works remains in copyright in the UK and Europe until 31 December 2016. Nick Cooper (talk) 14:11, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Mabzilla did query Cosprings on this issue on his/her talk page here. It would help if Cosprings could use edit summaries explaining his/her actions. —Bruce1eetalk 14:36, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not affiliated with PG. Wikisource is its own PG, so really a direction to Here would be more appropriate. Wikisource is supposed to replace PG. Additionally, PG changes and updates frequently. The HG wells bibliography is meant to be permanent, and complete. Directing to PG deflects interest from Wikisource.Cosprings (talk) 21:17, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I follow your arguments; however, Wikisource is a long way from replacing PG, with far fewer titles covered so far. PG is a source for titles out of print - and rare second-hand, whatever its shortcomings may be. Plus, it is often quicker to find a reference in a work by searching the online version of a book one has in print form (my self-justification for using PG in a country where Wells is still in copyright). Would annotations for both Wikisource and PG do any harm?--Mabzilla (talk) 14:56, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

War of the Worlds
War of the Worlds is dated here as 1895, but in The Common Sense of War and Peace (1940), Wells writes on page 7 that "I published The Time Machine in 1893." So which publication date is correct?

Category to add
I've just discovered that Category:Books by H. G. Wells has only 13 books in it. Someone might like to add the category to the many other books linked from this page! PamD (talk) 16:36, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Realised that the category has a note saying it's for non-fiction books by him (why, I wonder?), so perhaps not a problem. PamD (talk) 16:39, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

A Family Elopement
This short story is reported to have been published in 1884 at this site: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/h-g-wells/ However, this is incorrect. Here is a facsimile of its original production in 1894: http://www.storypilot.com/fiction/wells-a-family-elopement-scan.pdf The content of the story is clearly written by a 28-year-old, not an 18-year-old. Updating the Wikipedia entry with the correct year of publication. Besides, as everyone knows, "A Tale of the Twentieth Century" was Wells' first published story. Here's one of many references: http://www.ansible.co.uk/writing/ft-wells.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by DanQuigley (talk • contribs) 04:27, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Adaptions
How about a section or at least some information on movie/film or radio adaptions?--Kmhkmh (talk) 03:55, 8 January 2016 (UTC)