A Story of the Stone Age

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"A Story of the Stone Age" is a short story written in 1897 by H. G. Wells.

The story was featured in three parts between May and August 1897 in The Idler magazine, and was later released in collected editions. The story is set during the Stone Age, and tells of a caveman named Ugh-lomi, who kills his rival, the de facto tribal leader Uya. Whilst in exile, Ugh-lomi becomes the first man to combine stone and wood to fashion an axe. He uses this weapon, along with his wits, to claim the position of tribal leader for himself.

The story is unusual for Wells, in that the various animals featured, including boars, bears and hyenas, all have names and can speak English.

v t e Works by H. G. Wells

Nonfiction	Crux Ansata The Fate of Man Floor Games The Future in America: A Search After Realities Little Wars Mind at the End of its Tether The New World Order The Open Conspiracy The Outline of History Russia in the Shadows The Science of Life A Short History of the World Travels of a Republican Radical in Search of Hot Water World Brain

Novels	Ann Veronica Bealby Christina Alberta's Father The Dream The First Men in the Moon The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth The History of Mr Polly The Invisible Man The Island of Dr Moreau Joan and Peter Kipps Love and Mr Lewisham Marriage Men Like Gods A Modern Utopia Mr. Britling Sees It Through The New Machiavelli The Passionate Friends The Research Magnificent The Sea Lady The Secret Places of the Heart The Shape of Things to Come The Sleeper Awakes The Soul of a Bishop Star-Begotten The Time Machine Tono-Bungay The Undying Fire The War in the Air The War of the Worlds The Wheels of Chance The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman The Wonderful Visit The World Set Free In the Days of the Comet

Collections	The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents The Plattner Story and Others Tales of Space and Time Twelve Stories and a Dream The Country of the Blind and Other Stories

Short stories	"The Chronic Argonauts" "The Country of the Blind" "The Crystal Egg" "A Deal in Ostriches" "Empire of the Ants" "The Land Ironclads" "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" "Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation" "The New Accelerator" "The Pearl of Love" "The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper" "The Red Room" "The Star" "The Stolen Body" "A Story of the Days to Come" "A Story of the Stone Age" "Triumphs of a Taxidermist" "The Truth About Pyecraft" "A Vision of Judgment"

Screenplays	Things to Come The Man Who Could Work Miracles The New Faust

Film adaptations	A Trip to the Moon (1902) The First Men in the Moon (1919) The Invisible Man (1933) Island of Lost Souls (1933) Things to Come (1936) The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1937) The History of Mr. Polly (1949) The War of the Worlds (1953) The Time Machine (1960) First Men in the Moon (1964) Half a Sixpence (1967) The Food of the Gods (1976) The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977) Empire of the Ants (1977) The Time Machine (1978) H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come (1979) The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1983) Food of the Gods II (1988) The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) The Time Machine (2002) War of the Worlds (2005) H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds (2005) H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (2005) H G Wells: War with the World (2006) War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave (2008) The First Men in the Moon (2010) War of the Worlds – The True Story (2011)

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