The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells.

Originally serialized in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year.

The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes invisible.

He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse it. 

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The Invisible Man - A grotesque Romance

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 TIME MACHINE remains one of the cornerstones of science-fiction literature and has proved hugely influential.

The Time Machine

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialized in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. 

Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race.

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The War of the Worlds

"I've had a most amazing time...."

So begins the Time Traveller's astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800, 000 years beyond his own era-and the story that launched H. G. Wells's successful career and earned him his reputation as the father of science fiction. With a speculative leap that still fires the imagination, Wells sends his brave explorer to face a future burdened with our greatest hopes...and our darkest fears. A pull of the Time Machine's lever propels him to the age of a slowly dying Earth. There he discovers two bizarre races-the ethereal Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks-who not only symbolize the duality of human nature, but offer a terrifying portrait of the men of tomorrow as well. Published in 1895, this masterpiece of invention captivated readers on the threshold of a new century. Thanks to Wells's expert storytelling and provocative insight, The Time Machine will continue to enthrall readers for generations to come.

Alors qu?il a décidé de prendre de la distance avec son travail et sa famille qui, tous deux, l?ennuie profondément, Mr Barnstaple, suite à un accident de la route, se trouve projeté dans un  parallèle U: topia, Terre jumelle de la nôtre, mais 3 000 ans dans le futur?  Il y découvre une utopie sociale, politique et scientifique en équilibre avec la nature à laquelle il trouve toutes les qualités d?une société idéale. Malheureusement, ce n?est pas le cas de tous les compagnons qui ont subi le même sort que lui et qui refusent obstinément de s?y adapter, tentant même de la remodeler au gré de leurs préjugés tout droits issus de l?ancien monde?
Bien qu?occulté par des textes plus célèbres d?H. G. Wells,D es Hommes comme des Dieux (Men like Gods), publié en 1923, reste un des meilleurs romans sur l?utopie sociale qui a toujours fasciné l?auteur mais aussi, et peut-être surtout, une fantastique vision prophétique sur l'avenir de nos sociétés malades?

Des hommes comme des dieux

The buying of orchids always has in it a certain speculative flavour. You have before you the brown shrivelled lump of tissue, and for the rest you must trust your judgment, or the auctioneer, or your good-luck, as your taste may incline. The plant may be moribund or dead, or it may be just a respectable purchase, fair value for your money, or perhaps-for the thing has happened again and again-there slowly unfolds before the delighted eyes of the happy purchaser, day after day, some new variety, some novel richness, a strange twist of the labellum, or some subtler colouration or unexpected mimicry. Pride, beauty, and profit blossom together on one delicate green spike, and, it may be, even immortality. For the new miracle of Nature may stand in need of a new specific name, and what so convenient as that of its discoverer? "Johnsmithia"! There have been worse names.

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 "For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive."

 When a strange, meteor-like object lands in the heart of England, the inhabitants of Earth find themselves victims of a terrible attack. A ruthless race of Martians, armed with heat rays and poisonous smoke, is intent on destroying everything that stands in its way. As the unnamed hero struggles to find his way across decimated wastelands, the fate of the planet hangs in the balance .

THE WORLD SET FREE was written in 1913 and published early in 1914, and it is the latest of a series of three fantasias of possibility, stories which all turn on the possible developments in the future of some contemporary force or group of forces. The World Set Free was written under the immediate shadow of the Great War. Every intelligent person in the world felt that disaster was impending and knew no way of averting it, but few of us realised in the earlier half of 1914 how near the crash was to us. The reader will be amused to find that here it is put off until the year 1956. He may naturally want to know the reason for what will seem now a quite extraordinary delay. As a prophet, the author must confess he has always been inclined to be rather a slow prophet. The war aeroplane in the world of reality, for example, beat the forecast in Anticipations by about twenty years or so. I suppose a desire not to shock the sceptical reader's sense of use and wont and perhaps a less creditable disposition to hedge, have something to do with this dating forward of one's main events, but in the particular case of The World Set Free there was, I think, another motive in holding the Great War back, and that was to allow the chemist to get well forward with his discovery of the release of atomic energy.

The World Set Free

Der utopische Roman »Im Jahr des Kometen« von H. G. Wells enthält eine recht umfassende Kritik am frühindustriellen England des 19. Jahrhunderts. Der Roman entwickelt darüber hinaus das Bild einer neuen Gesellschaftsordnung. Die althergebrachte Ordnung beschreibt H. G. Wells, dessen Eigenschaften im Hauptcharakter William Leadford deutlich wiederzuerkennen sind, in recht direkten und polemischen Worten. Der Aufbau der neuen Ordnung wird durch den Einschlag eines Kometen möglich. Bei dessen Einschlag wird ein grünes Pulver freigesetzt, das alle Lebewesen zunächst in Schlaf versetzt und ihnen zudem die aggressiven Gefühle nimmt. Nach dem Einschlag erfindet sich die Gesellschaft neu.

Der Bestseller-Autor H. G. Wells (1866-1946) war einer der Begründer des modernen Science Fiction-Romans. Mit seinen wissenschaftlich fundierten Romanen wurde er einer der erfolgreichsten englischen Schriftsteller.

The Invisible Man - A grotesque Romance

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