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The War of the Worlds: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking across the sky, a cylinder is discovered near London. Armed with just a white flag, the locals approach the mysterious object only to be burned alive by heat-rays as horrific, tentacled invaders emerge. Soon, the whole of human civilization is under thre ...Show more
The War of the Worlds (Sterling Children's Classics) by H. G. Wells
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Union Square Kids Unabridged Classics Ser.
What would happen if Martians landed on Earth--and none of our weapons could stop them? H.G. Wells's timeless masterpiece--which spawned many a movie adaptation--imagines this frightening scenario. The horrifying bug-like extraterrestrials, which can wipe out entire crowds with a single heat-ray and poi ...Show more
The War of the Worlds (Vintage Classics Sci-Fi range) by H. G. Wells
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The War of the Worlds By H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds describes the fictional 1895 invasion of Earth by aliens from Mars who use laser-like Heat-Rays, chemical weapons, and mechanical three-legged ''fighting machines'' that could potentially be viewed as precursors to the tank. After defeating the r ...Show more
The World Set Free by H. G. Wells
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: MIT Press / Radium Age Ser.
In a novel written on the eve of World War I, H. G. Wells imagines a war "to end all wars" that begins in atomic apocalypse but ends in an enlightened utopia.Writing in 1913, on the eve of World War I's mass slaughter and long before World War II's mushroom cloud finale, H. G. Wells imagined a war that ...Show more
The World Set Free by H., G. Wells
Category: Classic
This chilling, futuristic novel, written in 1913 and first published the following year, was incredibly prophetic on a major scale. Wells was a genius and visionary, as demonstrated by many of his other works, but this book is clearly one of his best. He predicts nuclear warfare years before research be ...Show more
Time Machine by H. G. Wells; Alessandro Lecis (Illustrator); Alessandra Panzeri (Illustrator)
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Classics Reimagined Ser.
Retold with stunning modern illustration, The Time Machine is a masterpiece of invention and storytelling from the father of science fiction, H. G. Wells. In this unabridged classic, the time-traveling protagonist is propelled by his machine to the distant year of 802,701 AD. To his horror, he finds onl ...Show more
Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Category: Classic | Series: Fantastic Fiction
A masterful tale from the founding father of science fiction. An ingenious inventor creates a machine which can hurtle through time.With no idea what to expect, the time traveller sets out on an epic adventure into the unknown. On his first journey into the future of the human race, the traveller encoun ...Show more
Time Machine by WELLS H G
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
A Victorian scientist develops a time machine and travels to the year 802,171 AD. There he finds the meek, child-like Eloi who live in fear of the underground-dwelling Morlocks. When his time machine goes missing, the Traveller faces a fight to enter the Morlocks' domain and return to his own time. THE ...Show more
Time Machine Graphic Novel (Campfire Graphic) by H. G. Wells; Lewis Helfand (Adapted by); Rajesh Nagulakonda (Illustrator)
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Campfire Graphic Novels Ser.
An intrepid adventurer, known simply as the Time Traveller, meets his friends for dinner one night. During the conversation, he baffles them with his wild ideas about moving forwards or backwards in time. His claims are met with disbelief. Even when he proves his theory with a real-life experiment, his ...Show more