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The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag - only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon the whole of human civilisation is under threat, as powerful Martians build gigantic killing machines, destroy all in their path with black gas and burning rays, and feast on the warm blood of trapped, still-living human prey. The forces of the Earth, however, may prove harder to beat than they at first appear.

A gripping and entertaining tale of terror and suspense as well as a potent Faustian allegory of hubris and science run amok, The Invisible Man endures as one of the signature stories in the literature of science fiction. A brilliant scientist uncovers the secret to invisibility, but his grandiose dreams and the power he unleashes cause him to spiral into intrigue, madness, and murder. The inspiration for countless imitations and film adaptations, The Invisible Man is as remarkable and relevant today as it was a hundred years ago. As Arthur C. Clarke points out in his Introduction, The interest of the story . . . lies not in its scientific concepts, but in the brilliantly worked out development of the theme of invisibility. If one could be invisible, then what? I personally consider the greatest of English living writers [to be] H. G. Wells. Upton Sinclair

A metal object falls from the sky over the south of England, and strange creatures come out. But they are not human - they are fighting machines from Mars. When another object falls, and then another, people start to worry. Are the Martians trying to take over the Earth?

The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon the whole of human civilisation is under threat, as powerful Martians build gigantic killing machines, destroy all in their path with black gas and burning rays, and feast on the warm blood of trapped, still-living human prey. The forces of the Earth, however, may prove harder to beat than they at first appear.

Edward Prendick, un biólogo, acaba ancorando despois dun naufraxio nunha illa, onde o doutor Moreau fai experimentos sinistros que provocan criaturas estrañas, medio humanas medio animais. Os humanimais, elaborados a medida do seu creador, Moreau, acabaran comportandose dun modo inesperado. Eis unha novela contemporanea para un tema actual, como o e a relacion da etica e a xenetica, narrada por un escritor utopico.

"From nearly two hundred centres, and every week added to their number, roared the unquenchable crimson conflagrations of the atomic bombs. The flimsy fabric of the world''s credit had vanished, industry was completed disorganised, and every city, every thickly populated area was starving or trembled on the verge of starvation. Most of the capital cities of the world were burning; millions of people had already perished, and over great areas government was at an end." The Last War erupts in Europe, rapidly escalating from bloody trench warfare and vicious aerial duels into a world-consuming, atomic holocaust. Paris is engulfed by an atomic maelstrom, Berlin is an ever-flaming crater, the cold waters of the North Sea roar past Dutch dikes and sweep across the Low Countries. Moscow, Chicago, Tokyo, London, and hundreds of other cities become radioactive wastelands. Governments topple, age-old cultural legacies are destroyed, and the stage is set for a new social and political order."" "The Last War" is H. G. Wells''s chilling and prophetic tale of a world gone mad with atomic weapons and of the rebirth of human-kind from the rubble. Written long before the atomic age, Wells''s novel is a riveting and intelligent history of the future that discusses for the first time the horrors of the atomic bomb, offering a startling vision of humanity purged by a catastrophic atomic war.

At a dinner party in suburban London, the Time Traveller, known to the reader only as the Eminent Scientist, speaks to his guests about the fourth dimension of space--i.e. time. He states that it is possible to travel through time much as one travels through space. The guests are not persuaded, even after seeing the Eminent Scientist's time machine itself. At a later dinner party, the scientist arrives a little late, rumpled and dirty. He tells them he has spent the equivalent of eight days in the year 802,701. He encountered the Eloi, a race of delicate gentle vegetarians who exist in an idyllic garden, and the Morlocks, who live underground and operate the machinery and industrial equipment of the world. The Eloi, in other words are descendents of capitalism, and the Morlocks are the progeny of the proletariat. The Time Traveller then hurries into the year 30,000,000, where he sees a single life form--a round, tentacled thing near the ocean. He concludes that this represents the end of life on earth.

"With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest at the Coach and Horses - is at first assumed to be a shy accident victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far more chilling: he has developed a process that has made him invisible, and is locked in a struggle to discover the antidote. Forced from the village and driven to murder, he seeks the aid of his old friend Kemp. The horror of his fate has affected his mind, however - and when Kemp refuses to help, he resolves to wreak his revenge

Two books in one, this volume contains both of H. G. Wells' most popular science fiction classics: The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds. Journey with the Time Traveller to the distant future where the beautiful, decadent Eloi and the vile Morlocks hold the earth in their sway. The War of the Worlds remains the definitive tale of the first encounter and clash of alien and human civilizations. When the Martian cylinders fall from the sky and release the terrible tripod fighting machines, it seems that earth's invaders are bent entirely on the extermination of humanity.

Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is an account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. It also considers the Neolithic era, the rise of Judaism, the Golden Age of Athens, the life of Christ, the rise of Islam, the discovery of America and the Industrial Revolution.

A mysterious individual with a white face boards the train to London. At first he does not seem to be interested in what is happening in his carriage, but suddenly, attracted by a book a passenger is reading, he starts telling about a strange series of dreams that had and have changed his life forever.

Los cuentos incluidos en este volumen ejemplifican la variedad de la imaginación de Wells, y, porque nos parecen absolutamente originales, proponen lecturas paralelas en la obra de otros autores más o menos alejados. Los ojos de Davidson es un juego cientifico que tiene como base la teoria de la pluralidad de universos cuyos espacios y tiempos pueden, a veces, entrecurzarse. La trama celeste de Adolfo Bioy Casares y El cuento mas hermoso del mundo de Rudyard Kipling son otras versiones del mismo tema. Los lectores de El Sur de Jorge Luis Borges y La noche boca arriba de Julio Cortazar reconoceran la trama de Bajo el bisturi. La historia de El huevo de cristal fue revisitada por Howard Fast en La tienda marciana y ecos de El astro pueden oirse en dos o tres de las Cronicas marcianas de Ray Bradbury. El ultimo relato de este volumen, El pais de los ciegos, tal vez el mas celebre, y quiza tambien el unico inimitable, pertenece a ese puañado de historias que parecen no haber sido creadas por unico autor sino surgidas enteramente de aquello que C.G. Jung denomino inconsciente colectivo.

Com sua prodigiosa imaginação, o escritor inglês H. G. Wells (1866-1946) cria, em obra de 1910, um futuro sombrio e distópico, muito diferente da era vitoriana em que viveu, considerada por ele mesmo

Em obra de 1908, um dos pais da ficção científica, o escritor inglês H. G. Wells antecipa o cenário de um bombardeio aéreo e vislumbra um futuro sombrio e distópico.H. G. Wells (1866-1946) foi uma ce

O cientista Griffin descobre o poder da invisibilidade por meio de experimentações rebuscadas em óptica e refração de luz. Ele é um avatar tanto de Frankenstein quanto de seu monstro: faz a descobert

When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have every reason to be afraid: in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race descended from humanity - the sinister Morlocks. And when the scientist's time machine vanishes, it becomes clear he must search these tunnels, if he is ever to return to his own era.

In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all'.;These three stories have all Wells' customary inventiveness, wit and twists in tale that have kept his writing startling and new for over a century.

With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest at The Coach and Horses - is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far more chilling: he has developed a process that has made him invisible, and is locked in a struggle to discover the antidote. Forced from the village, and driven to murder, he seeks the aid of an old friend, Kemp. The horror of his fate has affected his mind, however - and when Kemp refuse to help, he resolves to wreak his revenge.