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The story that launched Wells's successful career-the classic tale of the Time Traveler and the extraordinary world he discovers in the far distant future. A haunting portrayal of Darwin's evolutionary theory carried to a terrible conclusion.

The Invisible Man (Graphic Revolve)

by Terry Davis

Late one night, a man covered in bandages wanders into a village. The villagers soon grow suspicious of the stranger. When the villagers attempt to arrest him, the stranger suddenly reveals his secret — he is invisible!

H. G. Wells (Life & Works)

by Christopher Martin

The Invisible Man

by H. G. Wells

This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows.

Waging The War of the Worlds: A History of the 1938 Radio Broadcast and Resulting Panic, Including the Original Script

Waging The War of the Worlds: A History of the 1938 Radio Broadcast and Resulting Panic, Including the Original Script

by John Gosling, Radio script by Howard Koch

Charting the history of panic radio broadcasts triggered by dramatisations of The War of the Worlds, this book takes the reader on a journey from 1938 to the late 1990's. Beginning with the infamous Orson Welles War of the Worlds broadcast, you will learn that this was just the first of 10 distinct panics that convulsed countries as far afield as Portugal and Brazil. With material never before seen in the English... (more)

The Island of Dr. Moreau

by H. G. Wells

An English traveler, shipwrecked on a remote Pacific island, meets notorious vivisectionist Dr. Moreau and the creatures that have resulted from his experiments in turning animals into human beings. Reprint.

The New Machiavelli

by H., G. Wells

Without warning or preparation, increment involving countless possibilities of further increment was coming to the strength of horses and men. "Power," all unsuspected, was flowing like a drug into the veins of the social body. Nobody seems to have perceived this coming of power, and nobody had calculated its probable consequences. Suddenly, almost inadvertently, people found themselves doing things that would... (more)

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

Here, for the first time in Bantam print, is the science fiction classic that proposed the possibility of intelligent life on other planets. Written almost 100 years ago, this compelling tale describes the Martian invasion of Earth and man's struggle to survive.

The War in the Air (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)

The War in the Air (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)

by H. G. Wells

At the beginning of the twentieth century the invention of the airplane revolutionizes warfare and precipitates a devastating world war. Nations race to build armadas of airships; cities across the globe are bombed; flying navies clash above the Alps and India. The United States is invaded from the east and the west. German and American airships duel over the Atlantic, and New York is bombarded by German flying... (more)

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The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

The Invisible Man (Graphic Revolve)

by Terry Davis

H. G. Wells (Life & Works)

by Christopher Martin

The Invisible Man

by H. G. Wells

Waging The War of the Worlds: A History of the 1938 Radio Broadcast and Resulting Panic, Including the Original Script

by John Gosling, Radio script by Howard Koch

The Island of Dr. Moreau

by H. G. Wells

The New Machiavelli

by H., G. Wells

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

The War in the Air (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)

by H. G. Wells