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A Story of the Days to Come

H. G. Wells

First published 1899
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella

Notes


• First published as five stories in Pall Mall Magazine June to October 1899, with illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan. • Published in two parts, Amazing Stories April–May 1928, illus. by Frank R. Paul and R. E. Lawlor.

Original subtitles (below) set the stories explicitly in years A.D. 2090 to 2098. In the 2008 Gutenberg ebook, "A Story of the Days to Come" is divided in parts by five numbered headings: • I—The Cure for Love • II—The Vacant Country • III—The Ways of the City • IV—Underneath • V—Bindon Intervenes [1899 main title, "The Magnanimity of the Man of Pleasure"] Omitting the numbers, the first four of those headings are the main parts of the first four original story titles in their original sequence.

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Publications (44)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1899 Tales of Space and Time Harper & Brothers Collection
1899 Tales of Space and Time Doubleday & McClure Collection |4
November 1899 Tales of Space and Time Doubleday & McClure Collection 167
1900 Tales of Space and Time Tauchnitz Collection 133
1927 The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 796
1927 The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 796
September 1927 The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 796
October 1927 The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 796
1929 The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Doubleday, Doran Collection
1929 The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells The Literary Guild Collection
1937 The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells Doubleday, Doran Collection 701
1938 The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells Garden City Publishing Co. Collection 701
1938 The Famous Short Stories of H. G. Wells Doubleday, Doran Collection 701
1948 The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 796
1952 28 Science Fiction Stories of H. G. Wells Dover Publications Collection 730
1957 The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 796
1960 28 Science Fiction Stories of H. G. Wells Dover Publications Collection 730
1960 The Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection
March 1960 Three Prophetic Novels of H. G. Wells Dover Publications Omnibus 189
1963 Best Stories of H. G. Wells Ballantine Books Collection 235
June 1963 Best Stories of H. G. Wells Ballantine Books Collection 235
1964 28 Science Fiction Stories of H. G. Wells Dover Publications Collection 730
1965 The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection
1966 28 Science Fiction Stories of H. G. Wells Dover Publications Collection 730
September 1966 The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 715
1974 The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells Ernest Benn Collection 715
June 1976 A Story of the Days to Come Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Chapbook 9
October 1982 Three More Novels of the Future Nelson Doubleday / SFBC Omnibus
1987 The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells St. Martin's Press Collection 715
November 1997 The Science Fiction Century Tor Anthology 57
November 1997 The Science Fiction Century Tor / BOMC Anthology 57
May 1998 The Science Fiction Century Quality Paperback Book Club Anthology 57
August 1998 The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells J. M. Dent Collection 333
March 2006 The Science Fiction Century, Volume One Orb Anthology 51
December 2008 Tales of Space and Time Project Gutenberg Collection |165
April 2011 Complete Short Story Omnibus Gollancz Collection 363
January 2014 Tales of Space and Time LibriVox Collection |4
March 2014 A Story of the Days to Come LibriVox Chapbook
February 2017 Short Stories: Anthology of Classic Tales Flame Tree Publishing Collection 298
2018 Short Stories: Anthology of Classic Tales Flame Tree Publishing Collection 298
May 2018 Tales of Space and Time Oregan Publishing Collection |4
December 2018 Short Stories: Anthology of Classic Tales Flame Tree Publishing Collection |24
2020 Short Stories: Anthology of Classic Tales Flame Tree Publishing Collection 298
April 2024 Tales of Space and Time Roy Glashan's Library Collection |165