Gathered together in one hardcover volume: three timeless novels
from the founding father of science fiction. The first great novel
to imagine time travel, "The Time Machine" (1895) follows its
scientist narrator on an incredible journey that takes him finally
to Earth's last moments--and perhaps his own. The scientist who
discovers how to transform himself in "The Invisible Man" (1897)
will also discover, too late, that he has become unmoored from
society and from his own sanity. "The War of the Worlds"
(1898)--the seminal masterpiece of alien invasion adapted by Orson
Welles for his notorious 1938 radio drama, and subsequently by
several filmmakers--imagines a fierce race of Martians who
devastate Earth and feed on their human victims while their
voracious vegetation, the red weed, spreads over the ruined planet.
Here are three classic science fiction novels that, more than a
century after their original publication, show no sign of losing
their grip on readers' imaginations.