The Croquet Player

“The Croquet Player is one of the most popular of Wells’ later novellas. It is considered a modern classic. . . . This edition features a thoughtful dissection of the novella by John Huntington.”—The H.G. Wells Society, The Americas

"Without a doubt, the fine, readable edition recently issued from the University of Nebraska’s Bison Frontiers of Imagination series (it has generous margins and a thoughtful, useful afterward by John Huntington of the University of Illinois) is surely the one to purchase and curl up with on a rainy night, as one prepares to encounter yet another fascinating production from the prodigious mind of the found of science fiction."—Jason Gleckman, Science Fiction Studies