The H. G. Wells Collection

Don’t wait any longer and buy now! This exclusive collection has been created especially for you.The Wizard of Oz Collection:The Chronic ArgonautsThe Time MachineThe Wonderful VisitThe Island of Doctor MoreauThe Invisible ManThe War of the WorldsWhen the Sleeper Wakes.During his own lifetime however he was most prominent as a forward-looking even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. A futurist he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of airplanes tanks space travel nuclear weapons satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web. His science fiction imagined time travel alien invasion invisibility and biological engineering. Brian Aldiss referred to Wells as the Shakespeare of science fiction”. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895) The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) The Invisible Man (1897) and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.