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H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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The ultimate tale of Earth's invasion, written by one of the fathers of the science fiction genre. They came from a depleted, dying planet. Their target: the riches of a moist, green Earth. With horrifyingly advanced machines of destruction, they began their inexorable conquest. The war for Earth seemed destined to be ... but was it?
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Man can move easily enough in the three dimensions of space - why not the fourth: Time? An intriguing after-dinner conversation takes an unexpected turn when the host produces a small machine, which promptly disappears into thin air. It has been sent into the future, he says. Or maybe the past. As his skeptical guests try to fathom what they have seen, the host unveils a full-size machine, nearing completion. At a similar gathering one week later...
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Alone—it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end. The Original 1897 Classic. A curious man, wearing a long coat, a wide-brimmed hat, and whose face is entirely swathed in bandages save for an obvious fake pink nose, walks into an English inn to the shock and horror of many of the townspeople. Beakers and chemicals in tow, the man demands his solitude. It’s strange enough as it is until...
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"When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity. Cavor soon succeeds in his experiments, only to tell a stunned Bedford the invention makes possible one of the oldest dreams of humanity: a journey to the moon. With Bedford motivated by money and Cavor by the desire for knowledge, the two...
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"...tells the story of the shipwrecked Edward Prendick, who finds himself rescued by the mysterious character of the title. On the island, he discovers that his saviour is a mad scientist, intent on creating human-animal hybrids and testing where the boundaries of morality lies."--Page 8.
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The groundbreaking science fiction classic by H.G. Wells Imagine a food…that could change the course of human history. In The Food of The Gods and How it Came to Earth, legendary science fiction author H.G. Wells provocatively chronicles this very idea: a food so powerful it transforms society as we know it. Two young scientists, Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood, begin their study of "growth" on a whim, then proceed to develop Herakleophorbia...
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A masterpiece of stories by H. G. Wells, masterfully tied together by time and place. First, a shop owner named Mr. Cave, enraptured by a crystal egg, struggles to find a way to keep his magical possession... Then we are, taken to a time when cave people struggled to find their place on the planet and keep their lives. The forward to the far future where, in the place the cave people once camped, a young couple's back are, bowed beneath the tyranny...
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"One of the first novels to feature someone who travelled far into the future, the story centres around the character of Graham, a man who fell asleep in 1897 and awoke two centuries later as both the richest man in the world and an almost mythical figure only known as 'The Sleeper.' It soon becomes clear that the society he has arrived in is a dystopian one, as factions fight over his support while the ordinary man languishes in squalor."--Page 8...
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'The man's become inhuman ... He has cut himself off from his kind. His blood be upon his own head.' One night in the depths of winter, a bizarre and sinister stranger wrapped in bandages and eccentric clothing arrives in a remote English village. His peculiar, secretive activities in the room he rents spook the locals. Speculation about his identity becomes horror and disbelief when the villagers discover that, beneath his disguise,...
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This book contains eight short stories written by H. G. Wells. A wonderful mixture of science fiction and fantasy, 'The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories' constitutes a fantastic introduction to Wells' work and would make for a fantastic addition to any collection. The stories include: 'A Door in The Wall', 'The Star', 'A Dream of Armageddon', 'The Cone', 'A Moonlight Fable', 'The Diamond Maker', 'The Lord of The Dynamos', and 'The Country of The...
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Two of the greatest science fiction classics of all time...in one collection!
H.G. Wells (1866 -1946) - the master of the genre - created his "scientific romances" and set the standard for futuristic literature that teemed with both social commentary and a prescient view of the world to come. Here, we present "The Invisible Man" and "The War of the Worlds," two of the most popular and thrilling science fiction novels ever created...together in...
