Monday, September 21, 2026

Born on this day – H. G. Wells:


H. G. Wells


Writer

September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946


The Time Machine

By H.G. Wells.

First published 1895.
Published by Bantam Classics.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0553213512
ISBN-13: 978-0553213515

Description:

When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700 – and everything had changed. In this unfamiliar, utopian age, creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony. The Time Traveller thought he could study these marvelous beings – unearth their secret and then return to his own time – until he discovered that his invention, his only avenue of escape, had been stolen.

H.G. Well's famous novel of one man's astonishing journey beyond the conventional limits of the imagination first appeared in 1895. It won him immediate recognition and has been regarded ever since as one of the great masterpieces in the literature of science fiction.

Books, short stories and screenplays:

30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories (2019); 30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die (2019); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); A Dream of Armageddon (1901); A Modern Utopia (1905); A Modern Utopia and Other Discussions (1925); A Short History of the World (1922); A Story Of The Days To Come (1897); A Vision of Judgment (2022); A Volume of Journalism (1999); Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls (1985); Aepyornis Island (2022); Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Bar The Doors (1946); All Aboard for Ararat (1940); Amazing Stories, February 1929 (2014); An Englishman Looks at the World (1914); Ann Veronica (1909); Anticipations (1901); Apropos of Dolores (1938); Autocracy of Mr. Parham (1930); Babes in the Darkling Wood (1940); Bealby: A Holiday (1915); Boon (1915); Boon, the Mind of the Race (1915); Brynhild (1937); Bulpington of Blup (1930); Certain Personal Matters (1897); Christina Alberta's Father (1925); Classic Martian Stories (2014); Classic Tales of Horror (2020); Collected Short Stories (2008); Contact: Stories of the New World (2013); Crux Ansata (1943); Early Writings in Science and Science Fiction (1975); Elements of Reconstruction (1916); Experiment in Autobiography (1934); Experiment in Autobiography, Vol. 2 (1984); First and Last Things (1908); Floor Games (1911); Frank Swinnerton (1975); God the Invisible King (1917); Great Classic Science Fiction (2010); Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror (1931); H.G. Wells in Love (1934); In the Days of the Comet & Seventeen Short Stories (1999); In the Days of the Comet (1906); In The Fourth Year (1918); Interviews and Recollections (1981); Joan and Peter: A Story of an Education (1918); Kipps (1905); Little Wars (1913); Little Wars and Floor Games (2006); Lost Mars (2018); Love and Mr. Lewisham (1899); Mankind in the Making (1903); Marriage (1912); Meanwhile the Picture of a Lady (1927); Men Like Gods (1923); Mind at the End of Its Tether (1945); Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island (1928); Mr. Britling Sees It Through (1916); Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation (1898); Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland (1903); Mysterious Sea Stories (1987); New Worlds for Old (1908); Over the Rainbow (1983); Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1979); Science Fiction Stories (1988); Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences (1895); Star Begotten (1937); Tainted: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2008); Tales of Space and Time (1899); Tales of the Occult (1989); Tales of the Weird and Supernatural (2011); Tales of Wonder (1910); The Argonauts of the Air & 15 Short Stories (2015); The Best Crime Stories Ever Told (2002); The Best Short Stories of H.G. Wells (2015); The Brothers (1938); The Camford Visitation (1937); The Campfire Collection (2003); The Chronic Argonauts (1888); The Complete Short Stories (1927); The Conquest of Time (1942); The Conquest of Time and The Happy Turning (2002); The Correspondence of H G Wells, Vol. 2 (1997); The Correspondence of H G Wells, Vol. 3 (1997); The Correspondence of H G Wells, Vol. 4 (1997); The Correspondence of H.G. Wells (1996); The Country of the Blind and Other Selected Stories (1909); The Croquet Player (1936); The Crystal Egg (1897); The Crystal Egg and Other Tales (1897); The Desert Daisy (1957); The Discovery of the Future (1902); The Door in the Wall (1906); The Door in the Wall? And Other Stories (2017); The Dream (1924); The Empire of the Ants and Other Stories (1977); The Fate of Homo Sapiens / The Fate of Man (1939); The First Men in the Moon (1901); The Flowering of the Strange Orchid (1894); The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904); The Future in America (1906); The Grisly Folk, and the Wild Asses of the Devil (2008); The History of Mr Polly (1910); The Holy Terror (1939); The Invisible Man (1897); The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896); The King Who Was a King (1929); The Magic Shop (1903); The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1898); The Man With a Nose (1984); The Martian Invasion of Earth (1898); The Moth and Other Stories (1962); The New Accelerator (2017); The New Machiavelli (1911); The New World Order (1939); The Obliterated Man (2022); The Outline of History (1919); The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1993); The Passionate Friends (1913); The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984); The Plattner Story (1896); The Plattner Story and Others (1897); The Pocket Book of Mystery Stories (1941); The Red Room and Other Stories (2000); The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes / The Story of Davidson's Eyes (1895); The Research Magnificent (1915); The Salvaging of Civiization (1921); The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A (1973); The Science of Life (1929); The Sea Lady (1902); The Sea-Raiders (1897); The Secret Places of the Heart (1922); The Shape of Things to Come (1933); The Sixth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1970); The Sleeper Awakes (1911); The Soul of a Bishop (1917); The Star (1897); The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents (1896); The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost (1902); The Time Machine (1895); The Time Traveler's Almanac (2013); The Treasure in the Forest (1894); The Triumphs of a Taxidermist (1894); The Undying Fire (1919); The Valley of Spiders (1903); The War in the Air (1908); The War of the Worlds (1898); The War of the Worlds: Fresh Perspectives (2005); The Wealth of Mr. Waddy (1969); The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010); The Wheels of Chance (1896); The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914); The Wonderful Visit (1895); The World of William Clissold (1926); The World Set Free (1914); Thirty Strange Stories (1897); This Misery of Boots (1907); Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... (1974); Tono-Bungay (1909); Twelve Stories and a Dream (1906); Ugh-Lomi and the Cave Bear (2016); Under the Knife (2022); War and the Future / Italy, France and Britain at War (1917); War Stories (1987); Washington and the Riddle of Peace / Washington and the Hope of Peace (1922); What is Coming? (1916); When the Sleeper Wakes / The Sleeper Awakes (1899); World Brain (1938); World's Great Mystery Stories (1943); You Can't Be Too Careful (1941).

Album:

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds (1978).

Movies and television:

A Brief History of Time Travel (2018); A Trip to the Moon (1902); Actor's Studio (1948); Alien Conquest (2021); Ancient Aliens (2022); Ann Veronica (1964); Armchair Theatre (1957); BBC Play of the Month (1966); BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1952); BBC: The Voice of Britain (1935); Blue Bottles (1928); Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951); Chapter 9 (2019); Charmed Lives: A Family Romance (2024); Christmas Tales (1990–1991); Cineficción Radio (2019); Das Land der Blinden oder Von einem der auszog (1976); Day-Dreams (1928); Dead of Night (1945); Deadly Tales (1998); Deadly Tales / Segment: Crystal Glazing (1998); Dr. Jekyll Meets the Invisible Man (1977); Dr. Moreau (2022); Empire of the Ants (1977); Endgame (2007); First Men in the Moon (1964); First Men on the Moon (2019); First Person (1960); Gemini Man (1976); Google and the World Brain (2013); Görünmeyen adam Istanbul'da (1955); H.G. Wells Comedies (1928); H.G. Wells: The Father of Science Fiction (2005); H.G. Wells's the Country of the Blind (2014); Half a Sixpence (1967); Have You Got Any Castles? (1938); History's Mysteries (1999); How to Become a Tyrant (2021); How to Lose Weight (1986); Il giustiziere invisibile (1916); In Search of... (1982); Invisible Agent (1942); Island of Lost Souls (1932); Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds: Minigame Adventure / Video Game (2011); Jeff Wayne's the War of the Worlds (1998); Kipps (1921 / 1960); La cometa Naranja (1974); La femme invisible (2011); La merveilleuse visite (1974); La Venere d'Ille (1981); Let's Make a Musical (1977); Love and Mr Lewisham (1959 / 1972); Marriage (1927); Matinee Theatre (1957); Miss Winchelsea's Heart (2023); Mr. Paracelsus, Who Are You? (1966); Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland (2023); Mutant League Football (1993); NASA's Unexplained Files (2019); Night of the Invisible Man (2009); Nová metoda malíre Smithe (1973); O Contador de Histórias (1955); Out of Place Podcast (2020); Overlap (2006); Parlez-moi de Vous (2023); Post Tenebras Lux (2017); Prophets of Science Fiction (2006); Riding with Death (1976); Siesta Z (2017); Spine Chillers (1980); Suspense (1963); Tales of Tomorrow (1951); Television Theater (1957); Terror Is a Man (1959); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Battle of Grovers Mill (2024); The Beautiful Suit by H.G. Wells (2022); The Button (1982); The Complete Citizen Kane (1991); The Door (2011); The Door in the Wall (1956 / 1990); The DuPont Show of the Week (1962); The Empire Strikes Door (2019); The Erotic Time Machine (2002); The Final Redpill (2022); The First Men in the Moon (1919 / 1997 / 2010); The Food of the Gods (1976); The Golden Twenties (1950); The Greatest Canadian (2004); The History of Mr Polly (2007 / 1949 / 1959 / 1980); The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells (2001); The Invisible Man (1933 / 1975 / 1984 / 1985 / 1998 / 2000 / 2015 / 2020); The Invisible Man / TV Series (1958–1959); The Invisible Man Returns (1940); The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944); The Invisible Thief (1909); The Island of Doctor Agor (1971); The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977 / 1996); The Island of the Lost (1921); The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003); The Magic Shop (1980 / 1982); The Magic Shop by H.G. Wells (2022); The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936); The Man Who Knew How to Work Miracles (1969); The New Adventures of the Time Machine (2000); The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells (2016); The Passionate Friends (1922); The Passionate Friends (1949); The Red Room / Podcast Series (2024); The Red Room: A H.G. Wells Adaptation (2023); The Remarkable Mr. Kipps (1941); The Shape of Things to Come (1979); The Stolen Body by H.G. Wells (2022); The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost (2023); The Time Machine (1949 / 1960 / 1978 / 1997 / 2002); The Tonic (1928); The Truth About Pyecraft (1959); The Twentieth Century (1961); The Twilight People (1972); The Unforeseen (1959); The UnXplained (2021); The War of the Worlds (1953 / 1967 / 2005 / 2014 / 2019); The War of the Worlds 2021 (2021); The War of the Worlds: Great Books (1994); The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981); The Wheels of Chance (1922); Theatre Fantastique (2017); They Forgot to Read the Directions (1924); Things to Come (1936); Time Machine: Rise of the Morlocks (2011); Time Machine: The Journey Back (1993); Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez (2004); Village of the Giants (1965); War of the Servers (2007); War of the Worlds (2005 / 2013 / 2019 / 2020); War of the Worlds (Is What It Is Theatre) (2001); War of the Worlds / TV Series (1988–1990); War of the Worlds / Video Game (1981); War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave (2008); War of the Worlds the True Story (2012); War of the Worlds: Goliath (2012); We're All Gonna Die (Even Jay Baruchel) (2022); What Lies Beneath (2008); Wishbone (1995); World War Weird (2018); Your Favorite Story (1954).

Born on this day – Francis Hopkinson:


Francis Hopkinson


Lawyer

Jurist

Writer

Composer

Designer of the American flag

September 21, 1737 – May 9, 1791

Written work:

A Pretty Story Written in the Year of Our Lord 1774 (1774); Judgments in the Admiralty of Pennsylvania in four suits (1789); The Miscellaneous Essays and Occasional Writings of Francis Hopkinson (1792).

Music:

Collection of Plain Tunes with a Few from Anthems and Hymns (1763); Seven Songs for the Harpsichord or Forte Piano (1788); Temple of Minerva / The First American Opera (1781).

Reading ...


Reading ...
that place where you're by yourself, but you are never alone.

Ann Patchett, on writing nonfiction:


When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

- Ann Patchett.

Sunday, September 20, 2026

On this day in movie history - The Old Man & the Gun (2018):


The Old Man & the Gun

directed and written by David Lowery,
was released in the United States on September 20, 2018.
Based on the true case of Forrest Tucker (June 23, 1920 – May 29, 2004),
and the article The Old Man and the Gun, published in The New Yorker (2003).
Music by Daniel Hart.


Cast:

Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, Tom Waits, Tika Sumpter, Ari Elizabeth Johnson, Teagan Johnson, Gene Jones, John David Washington, Barlow Jacobs, Augustine Frizzell, Jennifer Joplin, Lisa DeRoberts, Carter Bratton, Mike Dennis, Tomas Deckaj, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Patrick Newall, Daniel Britt, Leah Roberts, Elisabeth Moss, Alphaeus Green Jr., Keith Carradine, Kevin McClatchy, Todd Covert, Kenneisha Thompson, Robert Longstreet, John Wayne Hunt, Clara Harris, Jordan Trovillion, Derek Snow, Barry Mulholland, Annie Fitzpatrick, J. Todd Anderson, Torie Wiggins, Annell Brodeur, Toby Halbrooks, Christine Dye, Tom Lepera, Warren Bryson, Kelly Mengelkoch, Asher Parran, Kyndra Jefferies, Kay Geiger, Nathan Neorr, Dennis J. Barket, Cody Gilbert, Jack Michael Doke, Alexander M. Partridge, Larry Jack Dotson, Pam Dougherty, Atheena Frizzell, Marissa Woolf, Todd Terry, Sydney Benter, Krzysztof Abbas, Joseph L. Allen, Felicia Andes, Mark Angel, Michael Lee Bailey, Denise Barone, Judy McQueen Bauer, Anita Farmer Bergman, Laurie Bird, Rick Blodgett, John E. Brownlee, Michael W. Bunch, Alejandro Castillo, Austin Caudill, William Cross, Timothy Noah Curtis, Laura Dejean, Bobby Easley, Shawn P. Farrell, Alessandro Ferraris, Reese Foster, Tristan A. Garcia, Sammy Geroulis, Jason Gerrard, Jason Marcus Griffith, Chris Hahn, John W. Harden, Al Harland, Jennifer Henson, Ray Nicholas Hosack, Noah Jonson, Zach Kaltenbach, Susan Kile, Kenneth King, Traci Kochendorfer, Bryan Kruse, Paul Kulis, Daniel Lamont, Daniel J. Le Saint, Art Leung, Anita S Martin, Bryan Massey, Gleedis Mayfield, Joe Merritt, Brianna Moreau, Misty O'Bradovich, Barbara O'Connor, Warren Oates, Tammy Payne, Richard Phillis, David Pittinger, Derek Polen, Charles Poole, Michelle Poole, Aaron Pullins IV, Alec Reeves, Lare Roberts, Steven Schraub, James Siderits, Vince Hobart Smith, Carly Tamborski, Hickory Taylor, Robert P. Thitoff, Skyler Chase Thomas, Tom Vallis, Anthony W. Vickers, Steven Terry Walker, Allen Warchol, Victoria Watkins, Jan Duncan Weir, Dominick Wilkins, Amber Shana Williams.

On this day in music history:

Have a Nice Day by Bon Jovi (2005)
Christmas Joy by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2011)
Nádúr by Clannad (2013)
Power, Soul, Rock N’ Roll - Live In Germany by Lee Aaron (2019)
The Space Between Breaths by Sherry Finzer & Will Clipman (2019)
Yesterwynde by Nightwish (2024)


Have a Nice Day
Album by Bon Jovi,
released September 20, 2005.
Track list: Have a Nice Day; I Want to Be Loved; Welcome to Wherever You Are; Who Says You Can’t Go Home; Last Man Standing; Bells of Freedom; Wildflower; Last Cigarette; I Am; Complicated; Novocaine; Story of My Life; Who Says You Can’t Go Home.


Christmas Joy
Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins,
released September 20, 2011.
Track list: Walking in the Air; Still Still Still (While Shepherds Watch); Silent Night (Down the Aisle); Jingle Bells; Gliding on a Sleigh; Christmas Wedding; O Come O Come Emmanuel; Flight of the Snowbird; The Holly and the Ivy; Christmas Joy; Away in a Manger.


Nádúr
Album by Clannad,
released September 20, 2013.
Track list: Vellum; Rhapsody Na Gcrann; Transatlantic; Turas DH Mhsa Chon Na Galldachd; Brave Enough; The Fishing Blues; L MH Ar L MH; Tobar An Tsaoil; The Song in Your Heart; A Quiet Town; Hymn (To Her Love); Setanta; Cit Na Gcumann.


Power, Soul, Rock N’ Roll - Live In Germany
Album by Lee Aaron,
released September 20, 2019.
Track list: Mistreated; Tomboy; Rock Candy; Metal Queen; Fire and Gasoline; Powerline; I’m a Woman; Some Girls Do; Sex with Love; Barely Holdin on; Whatcha Do to My Body; Diamond Baby; Hot to Be Rocked; American High - Bonus Features: Music Videos; Diamond Baby - Bonus Features: Music Videos; I’m a Woman - Bonus Features: Music Videos.


The Space Between Breaths
Album by Sherry Finzer & Will Clipman,
released September 20, 2019.
Track list: Evening At Angkor Wat; Cliff Dwellers; Kilauea Rain; Penumbra; The Space Between Breaths; Enchanted Forest; Black Swan; Valley Of Lights; Timbuktu & You; Child’s Play.


Yesterwynde
Album by Nightwish,
released September 20, 2024.
Track list: Yesterwynde; An Ocean of Strange Islands; The Antikythera Mechanism; The Day of; Perfume of the Timeless; Sway; The Children of 'Ata; Something Whispered Follow Me; Spider Silk; Hiraeth; The Weave; Lanternlight.

On this day in movie history - Eye See You (2002)


Eye See You

aka D-Tox and The Outpost,
directed by Jim Gillespie,
written by Howard Swindle,
based on a story by Ron L. Brinkerhoff,
and the novel Jitter Joint written by Howard Swindle,
was released in the United States on September 20, 2002.
Music by John Powell.


Cast:

Sylvester Stallone, Charles S. Dutton, Polly Walker, Kris Kristofferson, Mif, Christopher Fulford, Jeffrey Wright, Tom Berenger, Stephen Lang, A.C. Peterson, Hrothgar Mathews, Angela Alvarado, Robert Prosky, Robert Patrick, Courtney B. Vance, Sean Patrick Flanery, Tim Henry, Dina Meyer, Rance Howard, Frank Pellegrino, James Kidnie, Yves Cameron, Harrison Coe, Peter Flemming, Chris Nelson Norris, Bill Mackenzie, Ian Gschwind, David Lewis, John Timothy Botka, James Ralph, Ruth Zalduondo.