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...

It is doubtful whether the gift was innate. For my own part, I think it came to him suddenly. Indeed, until he was thirty he was a sceptic, and did not believe in miraculous...

It is a moot point whether burglary is to be considered as a sport, a trade, or an art. For a trade, the technique is scarcely rigid enough, and its claims to be considered an art...

Three hundred miles and more from Chimborazo, one hundred from the snows of Cotopaxi, in the wildest wastes of Ecuador's Andes, there lies that mysterious mountain valley, cut off...

An anarchist intent on wreaking havoc throughout London steals a sample of deadly virus from an unsuspecting scientist.

The Wonderful Visit tells how an angel spends a little more than a week in southern England. He is at first mistaken for a bird because of his dazzling polychromatic plumage, for...