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La Máquina del Tiempo, escrita por H. G. Wells, es considerada una de las primeras novelas de ciencia ficción que plantearon el viaje en el tiempo como un hecho científico y filosófico. Pero más allá de su apariencia futurista, esta obra es una metáfora potente sobre el uso del tiempo, el destino de la humanidad y nuestras decisiones personales.

An impecunious businessman, Bedford, retreats to the Kent coast where he meets the archetypal absent-minded scientist, Dr Cavor, who is on the point of producing a gravity-defying material. His experiments prove successful, making possible one of man’s oldest dreams: a journey to the moon. The two men embark on this fantastic voyage–Bedford motivated by the prospect of wealth, and Cavor by the thirst for knowledge. However, when they arrive, they find a world of freezing nights and sweltering days, and signs of a threatening alien presence, from which they may never escape.

The shipwrecked Edward Prendick is rescued by the passing ship Ipecacuanha, which is carrying a cargo of animals. On board he comes across Montgomery, who appears to have a grotesque servant named M'ling. They are put ashore onto an island that is owned by Dr. Moreau, formerly an eminent physiologist, who is known for his infamous experiments in vivisection.

H. G. Wells est un des grands maîtres de la nouvelle. Il excelle dans l'art de distiller l'angoisse. La preuve, ces quatre récits fantastiques qui dévoilent que ce qui nous est familier n'est pas toujours ce que l'on croit. "Le pays des aveugles" : Dans une vallée d'Équateur coupée du monde, un montagnard égaré se retrouve au sein d'une tribu d'aveugles... "L'œuf de cristal" : Attention aussi aux objets scintillants dans la vitrine d'un antiquaire... "L'étoile" : Une étoile menace de s'écraser sur le soleil, et de provoquer la destruction de la Terre.

La Guerre des mondes est un roman de science-fiction écrit par H. G. Wells. C'est une des premières œuvres d'imagination dont le sujet est l'humanité confrontée à une race extraterrestre hostile. L'histoire : des astronomes sont témoins d'étranges activités à la surface de Mars, comme des éclairs ou des explosions de gaz incandescent. L'étonnant phénomène se répète pendant les dix nuits suivantes puis cesse. Des météores venant de la planète rouge se dirigent bientôt vers la Terre.

L'Homme invisible est un roman de science-fiction de H. G. Wells. L'histoire : après quinze ans de recherches ruineuses, le chercheur Griffin invente une formule scientifique permettant de devenir invisible. Ayant réussi une expérience sur le chat de sa voisine, le savant décide d'expérimenter la formule sur lui-même, notamment pour fuir ses créanciers, avant de déclencher un incendie visant à effacer ses traces.

An early science-fiction novel by the prolific and notable writer H. G. Wells, War of the Worlds describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. It is one of the earliest and best-known depictions of an alien invasion of Earth and was highly influential, spawning several films, radio dramas, comic-book adaptations, and a television series based on the story. 

The time traveler is on his way to a different world -- 800,000 years in the future. He finds humans called the Eloi living in simple luxury. They have become beautiful but meek, living on their safe, comfortable planet. The generations that have passed without challenge or adversity have dulled their minds. Underground machinery, built millennia ago, feeds and clothes these innocent creatures, and still functions perfectly. But who runs the machinery, and why are the Eloi afraid of the night?

A stranger arrives in a small English town, wreathed in a hat, coat, goggles and bandages. It's not just his identity he's hiding, though; he has discovered the secret of invisibility, and believes it will lead him to ultimate power. But he needs to be able to control the process, and when the terrified villagers refuse to help him, he decides on bloody revenge.

Un precursor de la ficcion cientifica. La ficcion cientifica esta basada en adaptar los adelantos de la ciencia e imaginar que se puede lograr con ellos.

Shipwrecked traveller Edward Prendick finds himself an unwilling and unwanted guest on a remote volcanic island, home of the infamous Dr Moreau and his colleague Montgomery, and populated by a variety of strange and repellant people. Soon, Prendick comes to understand the full extent of Moreau's...

The Time Machine: A brilliant Victorian scientist travels to the astonishing year 802,701 AD. What initially appears to be a paradise inhabited by the peaceful and beautiful Eloi soon reveals a terrifying reality. Following the mysterious theft of his invention, the Traveler discovers the Morlocks, monstrous subterranean creatures who breed the surface-dwellers as livestock. Trapped in this divided future, he must fight tenaciously for his survival and recover his only means of escape before witnessing the freezing twilight of Earth.

What if a deadly poison was the only cure for a broken life? Mr. Coombes is a henpecked shopkeeper pushed to the absolute brink of despair by his ungrateful wife. Fleeing into the damp pine woods, he contemplates a dark, watery end to his miserable existence - until a strange, eerie object...

A terrifying leap into the fourth dimension... or an elaborate, impossible lie? With a blinding flash and a deafening report, quiet schoolmaster Gottfried Plattner is erased from existence. Nine days later, he violently materializes out of thin air - dishevelled, bloodied, and bearing a...

What if London’s heaviest man weighed absolutely nothing? In this brilliantly bizarre, darkly comedic tale by H.G. Wells, an annoyed gentleman named Formalyn is relentlessly badgered by Pyecraft - the most monstrously obese, insufferable clubman in London. Desperate to escape his massive size...

An ancient city. A perfect stranger. A single word that ruins everything. For the deeply refined Miss Winchelsea, a dream voyage to Rome is supposed to be an escape into art and poetry. Instead, amidst the sun-drenched, cypress-shadowed ruins of the Colosseum, she falls under the spell of a...

What if your eyes were ripped from your body and cast eight thousand miles away? During a violent London thunderstorm, a freak laboratory accident tears a rupture in reality. A blinding flash of lightning strikes a powerful electro-magnet, and in that split second, Sidney Davidson’s sight is...

One drop. Millions of lives. And a countdown to absolute chaos. When a brilliant scientist reveals a sample of "bottled cholera" to a mysterious, pale-faced visitor, he unknowingly hands over the ultimate weapon of terror. The guest is a radical anarchist - and in a heartbeat, the lethal...

What if the most terrifying discovery in the universe isn't hidden among the stars, but trapped in the room with you? Isolated on a remote Bornean mountain, astronomer Woodhouse begins a solitary night watch inside the claustrophobic Avu Observatory. The telescope is locked onto the void, and...

What happens when humanity is no longer at the top of the food chain? Deep within the suffocating, steam-choked wilderness of the Amazon, a bizarre distress call summons a Brazilian gunboat to the remote settlement of Badama. The enemy? Ants. But as the crew drifts closer, the mocking laughter...