After the Lady Vain is shipwrecked, Edward Prendick is plucked from the waves by a passing ship and deposited on a remote island. Here he is the guest of Dr Moreau, whose notorious scientific methods had caused an uproar that left him...

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine (1888), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The War of the Worlds (1897), The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance (1897)...

The Country of the Blind von Wells, H. G.

Herbert George Wells (meist abgekürzt H. G. Wells; 1866-1946) war ein englischer Schriftsteller und - zusammen mit Jules Verne - ein Pionier der Science Fiction-Literatur. Er studierte Physik, Chemie, Geologie, Astronomie und Biologie,...

"Anticipations of the Reactions of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought" ist ein Buch von H. G. Wells, das erstmals 1901 veröffentlicht wurde. In diesem Werk versucht Wells, die Auswirkungen des...

H.G. Wells SciFi Klassiker als neu übersetzte und illustrierte Ausgabe!Ein junger Wissenschaftler entschlüsselt das Geheimnis, wie man unsichtbar wird. Zunächst ist er begeistert von seiner neuen Entdeckung, doch als er das Experiment an...

A Victorian scientist and inventor creates a machine for propelling himself through time, and voyages to the year AD 802701, where he discovers a race of humanoids called the Eloi. Their gently indolent way of life, set in a decaying...

Edward Prendick, an Englishman with a scientific education survives a shipwreck in the southern Pacific Ocean. A passing ship takes him aboard, and a man named Montgomery revives him. Prendick also meets a grotesque bestial native named...

The first modern tale of alien invasion, H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential science fiction novels ever published.The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder...

"Die Zeitmaschine" (engl. Originaltitel "The Time Machine") ist ein Science-Fiction-Roman von H. G. Wells.Dieser 1895 erschienene Klassiker der Science-Fiction-Literatur ist die erste literarische Beschreibung einer Zeitreise in die...

Exact facsimile of 1928 Edition. The book is, in Wells's words, a "scheme to thrust forward and establish a human control over the destinies of life and liberate it from its present dangers, uncertainties and miseries." It proposes that...

An English scientist and gentleman inventor living in Victorian England reveals to his weekly dinner guests that time is simply a fourth dimension, and his demonstration of a tabletop model machine for travelling through it. He has built...