Books like Tales of Space and Time

I've been re-disovering H. G. Wells lately, and this collection of short stories is bursting with imagination and entertainment :THE CRYSTAL EGG - I loved the concept of the crystal egg itself, and the slow reveal of what the egg is holds the attention throughout the story. Towards the end, I thought we were heading towards a potential alien invasion as the pay off, but the story had a much less "pat" ending I'm glad to say.THE STAR - almost like a modern disaster movie, or the opening scenes of one at any rate. Very effective, and the inclusion of Ogilvy the astronomer and the martians provided a neat link with The War of the Worlds.A STORY OF THE STONE AGE - this one didn't appeal to me. The setting just didn't grab me, and ok maybe I didn't try hard enough but I gave up after a couple of pages and flicked to the next story.A STORY OF THE DAYS TO COME - a love story in the 22nd century, in a future imagined by Wells from a Victorian perspective. Some of the predictions are interestingly accurate, the removal of the population from the countryside (now deserted) into over-populated, sky-scrapered cities rings true. And even the inaccurate predictions make for entertaining reading. I particularly liked the wildly colourful and "pneumatic" fashions that he describes.THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES - a short, witty and entertaining story to finish about the power of working miracles, granted to a small unassuming man.