The Conquest of Time -- Time is the one thing that governs our very being -- whether young or old, at the end of our days or just starting out in life, time is a fixed quantity. Measurable and exact, it orders our days and instructs our activity with a rigid and monotonous regularity. But what if time were to become fluid? If the shadow on the sundial could be altered to speed on to the next day, or to revert to our yesterdays? Wouldn't this have immeasurable implications on every aspect of our lives? And if time becomes transient, the concept of death must surely take on a very different flavour. Once the controlling force of time has been usurped, a whole host of philosophical questions come into play -- questions that H G Wells ponders with remarkable dexterity. The Happy Turning 'The fantasies of dreamland go an immeasurable way beyond what is now conceivable and practical.' -- As an escape from the horrors of the final days of the Second World War, H G Wells turns his thoughts to the dream world -- a world unbound by the logic and reason of earthly matter and a world where he can come face to face with deities and supernatural beings. The fantasy he conceives is intelligent, exotic and thoroughly entertaining. Book jacket.