
The Greatest Sci-Fi Novels of H. G. Wells
By H. G. WellsLength97h 27m
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In "The Greatest Sci-Fi Novels of H. G. Wells," readers are invited to traverse the imaginative realms crafted by one of science fiction's pioneering voices. This essential anthology features seminal works such as "The Time Machine," "The War of the Worlds," and "The Invisible Man," showcasing Wells's distinctive narrative style, which blends scientific inquiry with philosophical exploration. Set against the backdrop of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Wells's prose not only entertains but also prompts critical reflections on humanity's relationship with technology, evolution, and the cosmos. His ability to interweave social commentary with speculative fiction places this anthology within the broader literary context of the Victorian era, illuminating the anxieties and aspirations of an age on the brink of modernity. H. G. Wells, often heralded as the father of science fiction, was profoundly influenced by the rapid advancements of his time, including the Industrial Revolution and the rise of imperialism. His experiences as a teacher and a journalist informed his perspectives, enabling him to explore complex social and ethical dilemmas through fantastical narratives. Wells's diverse background and deep engagement with contemporary scientific discourse uniquely equipped him to question the trajectory of human progress and its consequences. "The Greatest Sci-Fi Novels of H. G. Wells" is a must-read for both aficionados of the genre and newcomers alike. This collection not only encapsulates Wells's inventive genius but also serves as a thought-provoking invitation to contemplate the implications of science and technology in our daily lives. Whether you are interested in social critique, imaginative storytelling, or the roots of speculative fiction, this anthology promises to be an enlightening journey through the visionary mind of H. G. Wells.
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GenreScience Fiction, Literary Classics
Length97 hrs 27 mins
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Publish dateNov 13, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
135CHAPTER X THE BATTLE OF THE DARKNESS
2THE TIME MACHINE
136CHAPTER XI THE OLD MAN WHO KNEW EVERYTHING
3CHAPTER I
137CHAPTER XII OSTROG
4CHAPTER II
138CHAPTER XIII THE END OF THE OLD ORDER
5CHAPTER III
139CHAPTER XIV FROM THE CROW’S NEST
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6CHAPTER IV
140CHAPTER XV PROMINENT PEOPLE
7CHAPTER V
141CHAPTER XVI THE MONOPLANE
8CHAPTER VI
142CHAPTER XVII THREE DAYS
9CHAPTER VII
143CHAPTER XVIII GRAHAM REMEMBERS
10CHAPTER VIII
144CHAPTER XIX OSTROG’S POINT OF VIEW
11CHAPTER IX
145CHAPTER XX IN THE CITY WAYS
12CHAPTER X
146CHAPTER XXI THE UNDERSIDE
13CHAPTER XI
147CHAPTER XXII THE STRUGGLE IN THE COUNCIL HOUSE
14CHAPTER XII
148CHAPTER XXIII GRAHAM SPEAKS HIS WORD
15THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
149CHAPTER XXIV WHILE THE AEROPLANES WERE COMING
16BOOK ONE THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS
150CHAPTER XXV THE COMING OF THE AEROPLANES
17CHAPTER ONE The Eve Of The War
151The Shape of Things To Come: Introduction The Dream Book of Dr. Philip Raven
18CHAPTER TWO The Falling Star
152Book the First Today and Tomorrow: The Age of Frustration Dawns
19CHAPTER THREE On Horsell Common
1531. A Chronological Note
20CHAPTER FOUR The Cylinder Opens
1542. How the Idea and Hope of the Modern World State First Appeared
21CHAPTER FIVE The HeatRay
1553. The Accumulating Disproportions of the Old Order
22CHAPTER SIX The HeatRay In The Chobham Road
1564. Early Attempts to Understand and Deal with These Disproportions; The Criticisms of Karl Marx and Henry George
23CHAPTER SEVEN How I Reached Home
1575. The Way in Which Competition and Monetary Inefficiency Strained the Old Order
24CHAPTER EIGHT Friday Night
1586. The Paradox of Over-Production and Its Relation to War
25CHAPTER NINE The Fighting Begins
1597. The Great War of 1914-1918
26CHAPTER TEN In The Storm
1608. The Impulse to Abolish War; The Episode of the Ford Peace Ship
27CHAPTER ELEVEN At The Window
1619. The Direct Action of the Armament Industries in Maintaining War Stresses
28CHAPTER TWELVE What I Saw Of The Destruction
16210. Versailles: Seed Bed of Disasters
29CHAPTER THIRTEEN How I Fell In With The Curate
16311. The Impulse to Abolish War: Why the League of Nations Failed to Pacify the World
30CHAPTER FOURTEEN In London
16412. The Breakdown of “Finance” and Social Morale after Versailles
31CHAPTER FIFTEEN What Had Happened In Surrey
16513. 1933: “Progress” Comes to a Halt
32CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Exodus From London
166Book the Second The Days After Tomorrow: The Age of Frustration
33CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The “Thunder Child”
1671. The London Conference: the Crowning Failure of the Old Governments; The Spread of Dictatorships and Fascisms
34BOOK TWO THE EARTH UNDER THE MARTIANS
1682. The Sloughing of the Old Educational Tradition
35CHAPTER ONE Under Foot
1693. Disintegration and Crystallization in the Social Magma. The Gangster and Militant Political Organizations
36CHAPTER TWO What We Saw From The Ruined House
1704. Changes in War Practice after the World War
37CHAPTER THREE The Days Of Imprisonment
1715. The Fading Vision of a World Pax: Japan Reverts to Warfare
38CHAPTER FOUR The Death Of The Curate
1726. The Western Grip on Asia Relaxes
39CHAPTER FIVE The Stillness
1737. The Modern State and Germany
40CHAPTER SIX The Work Of Fifteen Days
1748. A Note on Hate and Cruelty
41CHAPTER SEVEN The Man On Putney Hill
1759. The Last War Cyclone, 1940-50
42CHAPTER EIGHT Dead London
17610. The Raid of the Germs
43CHAPTER NINE Wreckage
17711. Europe in 1960
44CHAPTER TEN The Epilogue
17812. America in Liquidation
45THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU
179Book the Third The World Renascence: The Birth of the Modern State
46INTRODUCTION.
1801. The Plan of the Modern State Is Worked Out
47CHAPTER 1 IN THE DINGHY OF THE LADY VAIN
1812. Thought and Action: the New Model of Revolution
48CHAPTER 2 THE MAN WHO WAS GOING NOWHERE
1823. The Technical Revolutionary
49CHAPTER 3 THE STRANGE FACE
1834. Prophets, Pioneers, Fanatics and Murdered Men
50CHAPTER 4 AT THE SCHOONER’S RAIL
1845. The First Conference at Basra: 1965
51CHAPTER 5 THE LANDING ON THE ISLAND
1856. The Growth of Resistance to the Sea and Air Ways Control
52CHAPTER 6 THE EVIL-LOOKING BOATMEN
1867. Intellectual Antagonism to the Modern State
53CHAPTER 7 THE LOCKED DOOR
1878. The Second Conference at Basra, 1978
54CHAPTER 8 THE CRYING OF THE PUMA
1889. “Three Courses of Action”
55CHAPTER 9 THE THING IN THE FOREST
18910. The Life-Time Plan
56CHAPTER 10 THE CRYING OF THE MAN
19011. The Real Struggle for Government Begins
57CHAPTER 11 THE HUNTING OF THE MAN
191Book the Fourth The Modern State Militant
58CHAPTER 12 THE SAYERS OF THE LAW
1921. Gap in the Text
59CHAPTER 13 A PARLEY
1932. Melodramatic Interlude
60CHAPTER 14 DOCTOR MOREAU EXPLAINS
1943. Futile Insurrection
61CHAPTER 15 CONCERNING THE BEAST FOLK
1954. The Schooling of Mankind
62CHAPTER 16 HOW THE BEAST FOLK TASTED BLOOD
1965. The Text Resumes: The Tyranny of the Second Council
63CHAPTER 17 A CATASTROPHE
1976. Æsthetic Frustration: The Note Books of Ariston Theotocopulos
64CHAPTER 18 THE FINDING OF MOREAU
1987. The Declaration of Mégève
65CHAPTER 19 MONTGOMERY’S `BANK HOLIDAY’
199Book the Fifth The Modern State in Control of Life
66CHAPTER 20 ALONE WITH THE BEAST FOLK
2001. Monday Morning in the Creation of a New World
67CHAPTER 21 THE REVERSION OF THE BEAST FOLK
2012. Keying Up the Planet
68CHAPTER 22 THE MAN ALONE
2023. Geogonic Planning
69THE INVISIBLE MAN
2034. Changes in the Control of Behaviour
70CHAPTER I THE STRANGE MAN’S ARRIVAL
2045. Organization of Plenty
71CHAPTER II MR. TEDDY HENFREY’S FIRST IMPRESSIONS
2056. The Average Man Grows Older and Wiser
72CHAPTER III THE THOUSAND AND ONE BOTTLES
2067. Language and Mental Growth
73CHAPTER IV MR. CUSS INTERVIEWS THE STRANGER
2078. Sublimation of Interest
74CHAPTER V THE BURGLARY AT THE VICARAGE
2089. A New Phase in the History of Life
75CHAPTER VI THE FURNITURE THAT WENT MAD
209THE FOOD OF THE GODS
76CHAPTER VII THE UNVEILING OF THE STRANGER
210BOOK I THE DAWN OF THE FOOD
77CHAPTER VIII IN TRANSIT
211CHAPTER THE FIRST. THE DISCOVERY OF THE FOOD.
78CHAPTER IX MR. THOMAS MARVEL
212CHAPTER THE SECOND. THE EXPERIMENTAL FARM.
79CHAPTER X MR. MARVEL’S VISIT TO IPING
213CHAPTER THE THIRD. THE GIANT RATS.
80CHAPTER XI IN THE “COACH AND HORSES”
214CHAPTER THE FOURTH. THE GIANT CHILDREN.
81CHAPTER XII THE INVISIBLE MAN LOSES HIS TEMPER
215CHAPTER THE FIFTH. THE MINIMIFICENCE OF MR BENSINGTON.
82CHAPTER XIII MR. MARVEL DISCUSSES HIS RESIGNATION
216BOOK II THE FOOD IN THE VILLAGE
83CHAPTER XIV AT PORT STOWE
217CHAPTER THE FIRST. THE COMING OF THE FOOD.
84CHAPTER XV THE MAN WHO WAS RUNNING
218CHAPTER THE SECOND. THE BRAT GIGANTIC.
85CHAPTER XVI IN THE “JOLLY CRICKETERS”
219BOOK III THE HARVEST OF THE FOOD
86CHAPTER XVII DR. KEMP’S VISITOR
220CHAPTER THE FIRST. THE ALTERED WORLD.
87CHAPTER XVIII THE INVISIBLE MAN SLEEPS
221CHAPTER THE SECOND. THE GIANT LOVERS.
88CHAPTER XIX CERTAIN FIRST PRINCIPLES
222CHAPTER THE THIRD. YOUNG CADDIES IN LONDON.
89CHAPTER XX AT THE HOUSE IN GREAT PORTLAND STREET
223CHAPTER THE FOURTH. REDWOOD’S TWO DAYS.
90CHAPTER XXI IN OXFORD STREET
224CHAPTER THE FIFTH. THE GIANT LEAGUER.
91CHAPTER XXII IN THE EMPORIUM
225IN THE DAYS OF THE COMET: PROLOGUE THE MAN WHO WROTE IN THE TOWER
92CHAPTER XXIII IN DRURY LANE
226BOOK THE FIRST THE COMET
93CHAPTER XXIV THE PLAN THAT FAILED
227CHAPTER THE FIRST DUST IN THE SHADOWS
94CHAPTER XXV THE HUNTING OF THE INVISIBLE MAN
228CHAPTER THE SECOND NETTIE
95CHAPTER XXVI THE WICKSTEED MURDER
229CHAPTER THE THIRD THE REVOLVER
96CHAPTER XXVII THE SIEGE OF KEMP’S HOUSE
230CHAPTER THE FOURTH WAR
97CHAPTER XXVIII THE HUNTER HUNTED
231CHAPTER THE FIFTH THE PURSUIT OF THE TWO LOVERS
98THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON
232BOOK THE SECOND THE GREEN VAPORS
99CHAPTER 1 Mr. Bedford Meets Mr. Cavor at Lympne
233CHAPTER THE FIRST THE CHANGE
100CHAPTER 2 The First Making of Cavorite
234CHAPTER THE SECOND THE AWAKENING
101CHAPTER 3 The Building of the sphere
235CHAPTER THE THIRD THE CABINET COUNCIL
102CHAPTER 4 Inside the Sphere
236BOOK THE THIRD THE NEW WORLD
103CHAPTER 5 The Journey to the Moon
237CHAPTER THE FIRST LOVE AFTER THE CHANGE
104CHAPTER 6 The Landing on the Moon
238CHAPTER THE SECOND MY MOTHER’S LAST DAYS
105CHAPTER 7 Sunrise on the Moon
239CHAPTER THE THIRD BELTANE AND NEW YEAR’S EVE
106CHAPTER 8 A Lunar Morning
240A MODERN UTOPIA
107CHAPTER 9 Prospecting Begins
241THE OWNER OF THE VOICE
108CHAPTER 10 Lost Men in the Moon
242CHAPTER THE FIRST Topographical
109CHAPTER 11 The Mooncalf Pastures
243CHAPTER THE SECOND Concerning Freedoms
110CHAPTER 12 The Selenite’s Face
244CHAPTER THE THIRD Utopian Economics
111CHAPTER 13 Mr. Cavor Makes Some Suggestions
245CHAPTER THE FOURTH The Voice of Nature
112CHAPTER 14 Experiments in intercourse
246CHAPTER THE FIFTH Failure in a Modern Utopia
113CHAPTER 15 The Giddy Bridge
247CHAPTER THE SIXTH Women in a Modern Utopia
114CHAPTER 16 Points of View
248CHAPTER THE SEVENTH A Few Utopian Impressions
115CHAPTER 17 The Fight in the Cave of the Moon Butchers
249CHAPTER THE EIGHTH My Utopian Self
116CHAPTER 18 In the Sunlight
250CHAPTER THE NINTH The Samurai
117CHAPTER 19 Mr. Bedford Alone
251CHAPTER THE TENTH Race in Utopia
118CHAPTER 20 Mr. Bedford in Infinite Space
252CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH The Bubble Bursts
119CHAPTER 21 Mr. Bedford at Littlestone
253THE WAR IN THE AIR
120CHAPTER 22 The Astonishing Communication of Mr. Julius Wendigee
254CHAPTER I Of Progress And The Smallways Family
121CHAPTER 23 An Abstract of the Six Messages First Received from Mr. Cavor
255CHAPTER II How Bert Smallways Got Into Difficulties
122CHAPTER 24 The Natural History of the Selenites
256CHAPTER III The Balloon
123CHAPTER 25 The Grand Lunar
257CHAPTER IV The German Air-Fleet
124CHAPTER 26 The Last Message Cavor sent to the Earth
258CHAPTER V The Battle Of The North Atlantic
125WHEN THE SLEEPER WAKES
259CHAPTER VI How War Came To New York
126CHAPTER I. INSOMNIA
260CHAPTER VII The “Vaterland” Is Disabled
127CHAPTER II THE TRANCE
261CHAPTER VIII A World At War
128CHAPTER III THE AWAKENING
262CHAPTER IX On Goat Island
129CHAPTER IV THE SOUND OF A TUMULT
263CHAPTER X The World Under The War
130CHAPTER V THE MOVING WAYS
264CHAPTER XI The Great Collapse
131CHAPTER VI THE HALL OF THE ATLAS
265THE CHRONIC ARGONAUTS
132CHAPTER VII IN THE SILENT ROOMS
266IN THE ABYSS
133CHAPTER VIII THE ROOF SPACES
267THE STAR
134CHAPTER IX THE PEOPLE MARCH
268THE CRYSTAL EGG