H. G Wells

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella. 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 absorbs and reflects no light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse the procedure. Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946), known as H. G. Wells,...

Classic / British English The War of the Worlds is one of the most frightening science fiction novels ever written. When a spaceship falls from the sky and lands in southern England, few people are worried. But when strange creatures climb out and start killing, nobody is safe.

Mr Kipps was a simple man. To his simple, unsophisticated existence as a draper's assistant, he added layer upon layer of pretence until he had become an entirely new creation - one who could rightly rise to the next social echelon.

Bert Smallways had always been fascinated by anything that moved. His latest craze was air travel, a craze that would catapult him into the heart of plans for an airship raid on New York. This highly prescient novel was originally published in 1908.