H.G. Wells

Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer, was a young man when he finally resorted to medication for his insomnia and fell into a deep sleep. He wakes two hundred years later, still youthful, to an age of great marvels and scientific achievement—and a world whose strange underlying economy is that...

When a shy, solitary orchid enthusiast brings home a withered rhizome from a far-off island, his quiet life blossoms into terror. Nurtured in a steamy hothouse, the plant unfurls pale, exquisite flowers—and releases a heady perfume that lulls its caretaker into helplessness as its questing...

'Very thin indeed is the curtain between us and the unknown' The short stories of H. G. Wells are about many things, but they are nearly always about contact between the extraordinary and the everyday. There are few mighty statesmen or square-jawed heroes in his writing—it's a junior teaching...

El país de los ciegos: Y Núñez se encontró a sí mismo intentando explicar el ancho mundo del que había caído, el cielo y las montañas, la visión y otros prodigios como aquellos... Y ellos se negaron a creer o a entender nada de lo que les dijo... Ni siquiera comprendieron muchas de sus...

An einem warmen Abend am Ufer der Themse trifft der Erzähler auf einen heruntergekommenen, zerlumpten Landstreicher. Doch der Fremde ist kein gewöhnlicher Bettler: Er behauptet, nach jahrelanger harter Arbeit und gefährlichen Experimenten das Geheimnis zur künstlichen Herstellung ...

Tauche ein in eine der bewegendsten Erzählungen von H.G. Wells. In „Die Tür in der Wand" begleiten wir Lionel Wallace auf seiner lebenslangen Suche nach jenem magischen Garten, den er als Kind hinter einer weißen Tür entdeckte.

Passionate, headstrong, and fiercely independent, twenty-one-year-old Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her life to the fullest. When her autocratic father attempts to curb her academic ambitions and social experiences, she escapes her stodgy, conventional world and sets out alone to...

This superlative collection of futuristic tales explores ground-breaking supernatural themes from the founding heroes of the science-fiction genre. The short story form is perfect for capturing the atmospheric tension of these legendary stories. This collection includes the following stories...

Having coined the phrase "the war that will end war," H. G. Wells was disillusioned by the World War I peace settlement. Convinced that humanity needed to awaken to the instability of the world order and remember lessons from the past, the author of numerous science fiction classics set out to...

Vor 50.000 Jahren war der Mensch noch ein Neuankömmling in den Wäldern Europas – ohne scharfe Klauen, ohne Reißzähne und mit nur primitiven Speeren aus Holz. Als Ugh-lomi und Eudena auf einem schmalen Felsvorsprung Unterschlupf suchen und das erste Feuer entfachen, lockt der heiße Rauch...

H.G. Wells gilt mit seinen Romanen und Erzählungen als ein Magier, der die Zukunft voraussah. Nicht wenige gaben ihm zu Lebzeiten den Beinamen „die Sphinx", da er so viele Dinge bereits Jahrzehnte im Voraus benannte.

This 1911 collection of thirty-three stories, selected and revised by the author from amongst his huge output of short fiction, includes tales of comedy, horror, monsters, and strange worlds. In his introduction, Wells writes that the book brings together, “All the short stories by me that I...

Herbert George Wells was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called a "father of science fiction". Discover H. G. Wells best short stories and science fiction classics...

La Machine à explorer le temps est un roman de science-fiction, écrit par H. G. Wells. Il est considéré comme un classique du genre sur le voyage dans le temps. L'histoire : Londres, à l'extrême fin du XIXe siècle. Dans la maison d'un savant, un groupe d'amis écoute celui qui prétend...

Five seminal science fiction classics are brought vividly to life in these gripping BBC Radio dramatisations, with casts including Robert Glenister, William Gaunt, Carleton Hobbs and Joanne Froggatt. "Frankenstein" (1994) is adapted from one of the first science fiction novels, Mary Shelley's...

When it was first published in 1909, Ann Veronica caused a sensation, due to Wells' groundbreaking treatment of female sexuality Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from attending a fashionable ball, she...

Der Astronom Woodhouse hat einen der einsamsten Arbeitsplätze der Welt: ein Observatorium tief im Dschungel von Borneo. Während er durch sein Teleskop blickt, schiebt sich plötzlich ein Schatten vor die Linse.

Quando um exército de invasores marcianos chega à Inglaterra, o pânico e o terror tomam conta da população. Enquanto os alienígenas atravessam o país em enormes máquinas de três pernas, incinerando tudo em seu caminho com um raio de calor e espalhando gases tóxicos nocivos, os...

The Crystal Egg by H.G. Wells is a mysterious and imaginative science fiction short story about a curious shopkeeper who possesses a strange, glowing crystal with extraordinary properties. When examined closely, the crystal reveals vivid, moving images of a distant and alien world—possibly...

A Visionary Blueprint for Humanity’s Future H.G. Wells was more than a science fiction pioneer—he was a futurist, a philosopher, and an architect of ideas that continue to shape modern discussions on global governance, education, and human progress. This essential collection brings together...