H. G. Wells saw further and darker than almost any writer of his era. Exploring the primordial nightmares lurking behind humanity’s dreams of progress and technology, he became the defining pioneer of science fiction — and this new omnibus edition collects the full force of his imagination in a single volume. The four landmark novels gathered here — The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds — are joined by his most unsettling and strange short stories, together forming an extraordinary body of work that ranges across monstrous experiments, terrifying journeys, grotesque creatures and alien occupiers. As Wells himself put it in the opening lines of one of these tales: ‘No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s.’ Visionary, discomfiting and endlessly disturbing, these hugely original and influential stories retain their power to unsettle our sense of who we are. With an introduction by Matthew Beaumont.
ISBN 13: 9780241277492
Author: H. G. Wells
