The Great Science Fiction : The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Short Stories

H. G. Wells

ISBN 10: 0241277493 / ISBN 13: 9780241277492

Published by Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Sep 2016, 2016

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Neuware - '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'Exploring the primordial nightmares that lurk within humanity's dreams of progress and technology, H. G. Wells was a science fiction pioneer. This new omnibus edition brings together four of his hugely original and influential science-fiction novels - The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds - with his most unsettling and strange short stories. Containing monstrous experiments, terrifying journeys, alien occupiers and grotesque creatures, these visionary tales discomfit and disturb, and retain the power to trouble our sense of who we are.With an introduction by Matthew Beaumont.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Great Science Fiction : The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Short Stories
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Sep 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241277493
• ISBN 13: 9780241277492
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 198W x 128H x 40D millimeters 198 millimeters width by 128 millimeters height by 40 millimeters depth
• Weight: 484 grams

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Synopsis

'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' Exploring the primordial nightmares that lurk within humanity's dreams of progress and technology, H. G. Wells was a science fiction pioneer. This new omnibus edition brings together four of his hugely original and influential science-fiction novels - The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds - with his most unsettling and strange short stories. Containing monstrous experiments, terrifying journeys, alien occupiers and grotesque creatures, these visionary tales discomfit and disturb, and retain the power to trouble our sense of who we are. With an introduction by Matthew Beaumont

About the Author

H.G. Wells was a professional writer and journalist who published more than a hundred books, including pioneering science fiction novels, histories, essays and programmes for world regeneration. He was a founding member of numerous movements including Liberty and PEN International - the world's oldest human rights organization - and his Rights of Man laid the groundwork for the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Wells' controversial and progressive views on equality and the shape of a truly developed nation remain directly relevant to our world today.