The First Men in the Moon
“Why do people read science fiction? In hopes of receiving such writing as this—a ravishingly accurate vision of things unseen; an utterly unexpected yet necessary beauty.” So says Ursula K. Le Guin in her Introduction to The First Men in the Moon, H. G. Wells’s 1901 tale of space travel. Heavily criticized upon publication for its fantastic ideas, it is now justly considered a science fiction classic.
Cavor, a brilliant scientist who accidentally produces a gravity-defying substance, builds a spaceship and, along with the materialistic Bedford, travels to the moon. The coldly intellectual Cavor seeks knowledge, while Bedford seeks fortune. Instead of insight and gold they encounter the Selenites, a horrifying race of biologically engineered creatures who viciously, and successfully,…
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H.G. Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, in 1866. After an education repeatedly interrupted by his family’s financial problems, he eventually found work as a teacher at a succession of schools, where he began to write his first stories.
Wells became a prolific writer with a diverse output, of which the famous works are his science fiction novels. These are some of the earliest and most influential examples of the genre, and include classics such as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds. Most of his books very well-received, and had a huge influence on many younger writers, including George Orwell and Isaac Asimov. Wells also wrote many popular non-fiction books, and used his writing to support the…
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells; Edited by Patrick Parrinder; Introduction by Brian Aldiss; Notes byAndy Sawyer; Cover illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
H.G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau
H.G. Wells
The Great Science Fiction
H. G. Wells
The Rights of Man
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells
The Time Machine
H.G. Wells, with an Introduction by Greg Bear and an Afterword by Simon James
The Island of Dr. Moreau
H.G. Wells with an Introduction by Dr. Nita A. Farahany and an Afterword by Dr. John L. Flynn
Penguin English Library the Time Machine
H. G. Wells
The Invisible Man
H.G. Wells
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Emma
Jane Austen
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Dracula
Bram Stoker
The Betrothed
Alessandro Manzoni
The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
Ralph Ellison
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Cossacks
Leo Tolstoy
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Voyage Out
Virginia Woolf
The Southern Woman
Elizabeth Spencer
The Squatter and the Don
Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann
Death in Venice & Other Stories
Thomas Mann
Persuasion
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
Monkey King
Wu Cheng'en; Edited and Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Julia Lovell; Foreword by Gene Luen Yang
Emma
Jane Austen
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories
Robert Louis Stevenson
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Botchan
Natsume Soseki
Night Train to the Stars
Kenji Miyazawa
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories
Edgar Allan Poe
Girlfriend on Mars
Deborah Willis
Absolution
Jeff VanderMeer
Cloud Atlas (20th Anniversary Edition)
David Mitchell
The Book of Elsewhere
Keanu Reeves and China Miéville
Prophet
Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché
The Ferryman
Justin Cronin
Do You Remember Being Born?
Sean Michaels
The Apollo Murders
Chris Hadfield
The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
They
Kay Dick
Utopia Avenue
David Mitchell
The End of Men
Christina Sweeney-Baird
