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The Sea Raiders : Little Black Classic by H. G. Wells
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
"...slowly uncoiling their tentacles...and making a soft purring sound to each other." This is a disgusting account of a school of giant squid attacking a seaside resort, and two other examples of Wells' extraordinary imagination at work - 'The Magic Shop' and 'The Land Ironclads'. This is one of 46 new ...Show more
The Shape Of Things To Come by H. G. Wells
Category: Fiction
When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind a powerful legacy an unpublished dream book'. Inspired by visions he has experienced for many years, it appears to be a book written far into the future: a history of humanity from the date of his deat ...Show more
The Shape of Things to Come by H.G. Wells
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
When a diplomat dies in the 1930s, he leaves behind a book of 'dream visions' he has been experiencing, detailing events that will occur on Earth for the next two hundred years. This fictional 'account of the future' (similar to LAST AND FIRST MEN by Olaf Stapledon) proved prescient in many ways, as Wel ...Show more
The Shape of Things to Come [SF Masterworks] by H. G. Wells
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S.f. Masterworks
When a diplomat dies in the 1930s, he leaves behind a book of 'dream visions' he has been experiencing, detailing events that will occur on Earth for the next two hundred years. This fictional 'account of the future' (similar to LAST AND FIRST MEN by Olaf Stapledon) proved prescient in many ways, as Wel ...Show more
The Sleeper Awakes by H.G. Wells
Category: Classic
The Sleeper Awakes.A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes.H. G. Wells.A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, investments are made that make him the richest and ...Show more
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Category: Classic | Series: Tap Classics
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 s ...Show more
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Pan 70th Anniversary
A special edition of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells reissued with a bright retro design to celebrate Pan's 70th anniversary. A brilliant scientist constructs a machine, which, with the pull of a lever, propels him to the year AD 802,701. The time traveller finds himself on an idyllic Earth inhabited by ...Show more
The Time Machine by H G Wells
Category: Classic Fiction
"I've had a most amazing time...." So begins the Time Traveller's astonishing firsthand account of his journey eight hundred thousand years beyond his own era--and the story that launched H. G. Wells's successful career and earned him the reputation as the father of science fiction. With a speculative ...Show more
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Category: Classics
A "science fiction story" written in days gone by, sophisticated in a way modern "fantasy novellas" are lacking. The Time Machine by H G Wells is an example of classic fiction first published in 1895 in the United Kingdom. A true book of worth, a classic that lives on in an era of timeless distinction. ...Show more
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Category: Classic Fiction
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The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants o ...Show more