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H.G. Wells' 1897 science fiction novella The Invisible Man tells the story of a scientist named Griffin who theory is this: if the refractive index of a person's body is adjusted to exactly... |
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| Nine great stories in which Wells delves into strange and fantastic worlds. Included are The Country of the Blind, The Door in the Wall, and The Truth About Pyecraft . |
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H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, from 1895, popularized the idea of a vehicle that allows its user to travel intentionally and selectively across time, and indeed Wells is credited with coining... |
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| The first time traveler's explores the future and encounters the peaceful Eloi and the dreaded Morlocks. |
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| An amateur scientist discovers that just as he may travel around in the three physical dimensions, he may also travel through the fourth--time. These are his adventures and discoveries through time.... |
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The story that launched Wells's successful career-the classic tale of the Time Traveler and the extraordinary world he discovers in the far distant future. A haunting portrayal of Darwin's... |
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I drew a breath, set my teeth, gripped the starting lever with both hands, and went off with a thud. The time traveler is on his way to a different world-his world 800,000 years in the future. He... |
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Causing mass hysteria as listeners of its 1938 radio broadcast believed a Martian invasion of Earth really was taking place, H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is perhaps the most famous... |
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"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 and yet as mortal as his own…" The... |
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