A solid grouping of classic science fiction short stories by various award-winning authors. Featured authors include H. G. Wells, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Lester Del Rey, Fritz Leiber, James H. Schmitz, Philip K. Dick, Frank Herbert, and ...

A time traveler steps out of his time-transport machine in the year 802,700 to find Earth populated by a race of people supported by a slave class. As the conflict between them erupts, he realizes his only means of escape, his time ma...

In this thought provoking masterpiece, H. G. Wells predicts the inventions that will inadvertently lead to mass destruction, forcing the world to 'start over.' You will see many similarities between H. G. Wells' new world and today's ...

Nine stories including 'The Door in the Wall,' 'The Country of the Blind,' 'The Truth About Pycraft,' and 'The Strange Orchid.' 'Each piece of narration is invested with gristliness and wit.' -- Talking Book World

In this thought-provoking masterpiece, H. G. Wells predicts the invention of the atomic bomb, which inadvertently leads to mass destruction and forces the world to 'start over.

H. G. Wells sets forth an intriguing first-hand observation of Italy, France and Britain under severe duress during the 'War to End All Wars,' World War I. He insightfully examines the technological effects of modern warfare, particul...

The author of such science fiction classics as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds conjures up an island where a mad doctor experiments with turning animals into grotesque human-like creatures.

The Time Machine, Wells' first novel (published in 1895) and The War Of The Worlds (1898), comprise two great firsts in the history of science fiction. Respectively, they were the first novels to center around time travel and the firs...

The Time Machine, Wells' first novel (published in 1895) and The War Of The Worlds (1898), comprise two great firsts in the history of science fiction. Respectively, they were the first novels to center around time travel and the firs...

One night a stranger wrapped in bandages and eccentric clothing arrives in an English village. That stranger, Griffin, is a brilliant and obsessed scientist who has discovered how to turn his entire body invisible. Although he initial...

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Erase una vez el relato de un hombre con una vida muy particular, pero hombre al fin, esa es la unica condicion que lo dejaria vivir, de no ser por un error humano que lo hace extrano y temible. Sin embargo lo que para el fue una gran...

H.G. Wells was known as the father of science fiction—but his creative genius encompassed far more than a single literary genre. He was also a visionary, a satirist, a sociologist, and an historian. This audio anthology contains...

One night a stranger wrapped in bandages and eccentric clothing arrives in an English village. That stranger, Griffin, is a brilliant and obsessed scientist who has discovered how to turn his entire body invisible. Although he initial...

Wells had a keen interest in the political and social issues of his day, one of the most significant of which was the outbreak of the First World War. This book, written in 1916, presents the story of Mr Britling, a political commenta...

Wells had a keen interest in the political and social issues of his day, one of the most significant of which was the outbreak of the First World War. This book, written in 1916, presents the story of Mr Britling, a political commenta...

This 1911 collection of thirty-three stories, selected and revised by the author from amongst his huge output of short fiction, includes tales of comedy, horror, monsters, and strange worlds. In his introduction, Wells writes that the...

Written in 1924, The Dream tells the story of a man from a Utopian future who dreams the entire life of an Englishman from birth to his untimely death. Weaving the lives of Sarnac, a biologist from the year 4,000 A.D., and Harry, a ma...

Written in 1924, The Dream tells the story of a man from a Utopian future who dreams the entire life of an Englishman from birth to his untimely death. Weaving the lives of Sarnac, a biologist from the year 4,000 A.D., and Harry, a ma...

A stranger arrives in a small English town, wreathed in a hat, coat, goggles, and bandages. It's not just his identity he's hiding, though; he has discovered the secret of invisibility, and believes it will lead him to ultimate power....

The shipwrecked Edward Prendick is rescued by the passing ship Ipecacuanha, which is carrying a cargo of animals. On board he comes across Montgomery, who appears to have a grotesque servant named M’ling. They are put ashore ont...

I DO not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the Lady Vain. As everyone knows, she collided with a derelict when ten days out from Callao. The longboat, with seven of the crew, was picked up...

Englishman Edward Prendick finds himself shipwrecked on the open ocean. When a passing ship takes him aboard and revives him, things are starting to look less gloomy for the young scientist. Yet little does he know things about to g...

An English scientist, known only as the Time Traveler, constructs a machine that allows him to move back and forth through different periods of time. Testing this machine, the man travels forward to AD 802,701. Here he discovers a ...

Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are unabridged and have been rewritten fo...

H.G. Wells's science fiction classic, the first novel to explore the possibilities of intelligent life from other planets, it still startling and vivid nearly after a century after its appearance, and a half-century after Orson Wells'...

H.G. Wells's science fiction classic, the first novel to explore the possibilities of intelligent life from other planets, it still startling and vivid nearly after a century after its appearance, and a half-century after Orson Wells'...

“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.…” So begins The Wa...

In this classic nonfiction work, H. G. Wells takes a look at Italy, France, and Britain during World War I and examines the effects of modern warfare on human nature.

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