H. G. Wells: Stories

One of the earliest books dealing with feminist issues.

Wells said "These are all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again" about this collection of stories.

A business man and an eccentric scientist find a way to travel to the moon where they find an advanced alien society

The novel follows a poor, uneducated draper’s apprentice in a small English town, whose life changes dramatically.

Mr. Barnstaple, is a journalist working for the newspaper "The Liberal." he, as well as a few other Englishmen, are accidentally transported to the world of Utopia. Utopia is like an advanced Earth, it has a utopian socialist, world government. The newly arrived Earthlings pose a grave threat to Utopians, who begin to fall ill. They have to be quarantined until a solution is found. The Earthlings resent this isolation and some of them start plotting to maybe taking over Utopia?

The novel follows a respected English writer living in rural Essex who views the outbreak of war with optimism.

A group of men, including the narrator, are listening to the Time Traveller discuss his theory that time is the fourth dimension. The Time Traveller produces a miniature time machine and makes it disappear into thin air. The next week, the guests return, to find their host stumble in, looking disheveled and tired. They sit down after dinner, and the Time Traveller begins his story.

This early science fiction story centers around an unnamed narrator living through various engagements between the British military and superior alien attackers. it describes an invasion of the British Islands by an advanced civilization from Mars.  While the human defenders were hopelessly outmatched,they were still able to destroy several of the invading Machines. Will humans be able to survive this unusual invasion?