10 “a sort of parricide” – Ibid., p. 539.
11 “The Socialist world” – Orwell, CW V, p. 176.
12 “the ‘progressives’ ” – Orwell, “Inside the Whale”, CW XII, 600, p. 106.
13 “lies in that regard” – H. G. Wells, A Modern Utopia (Penguin, 2005), p. 13.
14 “vindictive resentment” – Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 104.
15 “nothing more than” – Ibid., p. 102.
16 “I had done practically everything” – Ibid., p. 288.
17 “a match that man has just got alight” – Quoted in Mackenzie, p. 87.
18 “H. G. Wells is a man of genius” – Quoted in ibid., p. 108.
19 “When Wells in his lamp-lit room” – James Gleick, Time Travel: A History (4th Estate, 2017), p. 5.
20 “the first well-executed” – Mark Hillegas, The Future As Nightmare: HG Wells and the Anti-utopians (Oxford University Press, 1967), p. 34.
21 “It’s rather pleasant” – Wells letter to Sarah Wells, October 13, 1895.
22 “It did not take us long” – Quoted in Mackenzie, p. 116.
23 “I make use of physics” – Quoted in ibid., p. 117.
24 “world of cooling stars” – Review of Mind at the End of Its Tether by H. G. Wells, Manchester Evening News, November 8, 1945, CW XVII, 2784, p. 360.
25 “I had realised” – Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 516.
26 “the philosopher who masquerades” – Quoted in Sherborne, p. 108.
27 “able-bodied, clean-minded men” – H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (Penguin Classics, 2005), p. 157. Уэллс Г. Война миров / пер. Е. Зенкевич. – М.: АСТ, 2014. 288с.
28 “Everyone who has ever read” – Orwell, Review of The Iron Heel by Jack London, etc., CW XII, 655, p. 211.
29 “gigantic glass hive” – H. G. Wells, The Sleeper Awakes (Penguin Classics, 2005), p. 71. Уэллс Г. Когда Спящий проснется / пер. Е. Н. Бирюкова. – М.: АСТ, 2011. 320 с.