H.G. Wells wrote science fiction, social novels and non-fiction, and several of his best-known books turn a single speculative idea into a direct adventure. The Time Machine sends an unnamed traveller into a distant future divided between the Eloi and the underground Morlocks. The War of the Worlds brings technologically superior Martians into southern England, while The Invisible Man follows scientist Griffin after an experiment leaves him unable to reverse his invisibility. The Island of Doctor Moreau places a shipwrecked narrator among disturbing experiments on animals. Wells's early science fiction is concise, plot-driven and interested in class, evolution and the social consequences of scientific power rather than technical detail alone. The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man make Wells a useful starting point for classic science fiction concerned with evolution, invasion and scientific power, before the genre developed its later technological vocabulary. Read more Less
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