The First Men in the Moon
H. G. Wells and Simon J. James (ed.)
As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation ...
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Edwin A. Abbott and Rosemary Jann (ed.)
Upward, yet not Northward.’ How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? Edwin A. Abbott's droll and delightful ‘romance of many dimensions’ ...
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The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance
H. G. Wells and Matthew Beaumont (ed.)
The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst* Railway Station, and ...
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The Island of Doctor Moreau
H. G. Wells and Darryl Jones (ed.)
The only island known to exist in the region in which my uncle was picked up is Noble’s Isle, a small volcanic islet, and uninhabited. It was visited in 1891 by HMS Scorpion. A party of ...
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The Last Man
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Morton D. Paley (ed.)
The last man! I may well describe that solitary being’s feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.’ Mary Shelley, Journal (May 1824). ...
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The Origins of Science Fiction
Michael Newton (ed.)
This anthology provides a selection of science-fiction tales from the close of the ‘Romantic’ period to the end of the First World War. It gathers together classic short stories, from Edgar ...
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The Time Machine
H. G. Wells and Roger Luckhurst (ed.)
The Time Traveller* (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was ...
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The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells (ed.)
No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as ...
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