Some business had detained me in Chancery Lane nine in the evening, and thereafter, having some inkling of a headache, I was disinclined either for entertainment or further work....

My friend, Mr. Ledbetter, is a round-faced little man, whose natural mildness of eye is gigantically exaggerated when you catch the beam through his glasses, and whose deep,...

It was on the first day of the New Year that the announcement was made, almost simultaneously from three observatories, that the motion of the planet Neptune, the outermost of all...

A young man called Edward Eden meets a strange old gentleman who says he wants him to be his heir. This strange meeting produces even more unusual results.

The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells, is an early science fiction novel which describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. It is one of the earliest and...

Mr. Hoopdriver, is a frustrated draper's assistant in Putney, a badly paid, grinding position and one which Wells briefly held; and yet he owns a bicycle and is setting out on a...

From the founding father of science fiction H. G. Wells, a masterpiece about a man trapped in the terror of his own creation.The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella by H....

"Men like Gods" is a work that can be defined as science fiction. The book  was written and published in 1923. The whole story has as its background the...

This book is a wonderful work of fiction by H. G. Wells, the author of The Time Machine. It is the tale of a fallen angel who simply cannot adapt to society in a small English...

The chief attendant of the three dynamos that buzzed and rattled at Camberwell, and kept the electric railway going, came out of Yorkshire, and his name was James Holroyd. He was...