“Wells’s masterpieces get the red-carpet treatment here in these luxurious editions...academic collections supporting English departments should definitely invest in this volume”—<i>Library Journal</i>; “Stover is to be thanked for his years of Wellsian scholarship”—<i>Public Library Quarterly</i>; “Stover, by presenting the intellectual underpinnings of Wells’ work, has provided a powerful tool for understanding his writings, one sees them more deeply, without losing that earlier sense-of-wonder that originally opened the vistas of the young reader’s mind...a crucial guide to these classics of science fiction”—<i>Fosfax</i>; “two cheers for Stoverism...formidable scholarship...serious students of Wells would be foolish to ignore ‘Stoverism’”—<i>The Wellsian</i>; “Stover should be commended for a painstaking and meticulous editorial commentary”—<i>Utopian Studies</i>; “extensively annotated and analyzed by Stover...annotations are filled with insights into Wells’ writings and philosophy”—<i>C&RL News</i>.