- Mass Market Paperback: 292 pages
- Publisher: Signet Classics; Reissue edition (1 Oct 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0451530705
- ISBN-13: 978-0451530707
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.8 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 198,571 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
A very good deal with 2 great classic stories. Bought for my daughter studying an abridged version at school and wanted to read the whole. The double edition provided a good opportunity to extend interest. Recommended value.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this for my son who had expressed an interest in reading it. My main concern was that 'modern' books are a lot faster, and pacier, than the books of the past and he might find it 'slow'. He didn't. He thought both stories were terrific, as did his young sister, so I would highly recommend it as a book which contains two gripping stories but also interests youngsters in the novelists of the past.
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One of the very first science fiction authors -- and the one with the biggest impact on sci-fi -- was undoubtedly H.G. Wells. And this collection brings together two of his timeless novels, "The Time Machine" and "The Invisible Man," both of which center on brilliant scientists whose experiments take them past everything we know.
"The Time Machine" concerns the Time Traveller, an English scientist who has built a machine capable of taking a person through time. So he goes to the year 802,701 A.D. and finds that civilization has fallen -- the human race has become the grotesque, apish Morlocks and the innocent, vague Eloi. And as he continues traveling into the future, it becomes bleaker.
"The Invisible Man" involves... well, an invisible man. A stranger covered entirely in clothes, goggles and bandages arrives in the village of Iping, and frightens the locals with his strange behavior. When the "invisible man" stumbles across the house of Dr. Kemp, he reveals his true identity and just how he became invisible...
A future "dying earth," time machines, strange elixirs and the archetypical "mad scientist" -- H.G. Wells came up with a lot of the ideas that are now pretty common in science fiction. Some of his ideas have been disproven (the whole invisibility potion), but that doesn't make his books any less groundbreaking.
Wells wrote in a staid 19th-century style, full of vivid descriptions ("The red eastern sky, the northward blackness, the salt Dead Sea, the stony beach crawling with these foul, slow-stirring monsters") and powerful emotions (the wild chase scenes in "The Invisible Man"). He also had a knack for inserting some really alien stuff into the stories, as well as some truly bleak depictions of what might come to pass.
And he wove in plenty of undeniable science -- bacteria, albinism, evolution and the life cycle of a planet, as well as the question of whether there was life on other worlds. I can only imagine how these books must have expanded the imaginations of the Victorians who read them.
Two of HG Wells' most famous works are brought together in "The Time Machine/The Invisible Man" -- bleak, brilliant sci-fi that needs to be read to be believed.
"The Time Machine" concerns the Time Traveller, an English scientist who has built a machine capable of taking a person through time. So he goes to the year 802,701 A.D. and finds that civilization has fallen -- the human race has become the grotesque, apish Morlocks and the innocent, vague Eloi. And as he continues traveling into the future, it becomes bleaker.
"The Invisible Man" involves... well, an invisible man. A stranger covered entirely in clothes, goggles and bandages arrives in the village of Iping, and frightens the locals with his strange behavior. When the "invisible man" stumbles across the house of Dr. Kemp, he reveals his true identity and just how he became invisible...
A future "dying earth," time machines, strange elixirs and the archetypical "mad scientist" -- H.G. Wells came up with a lot of the ideas that are now pretty common in science fiction. Some of his ideas have been disproven (the whole invisibility potion), but that doesn't make his books any less groundbreaking.
Wells wrote in a staid 19th-century style, full of vivid descriptions ("The red eastern sky, the northward blackness, the salt Dead Sea, the stony beach crawling with these foul, slow-stirring monsters") and powerful emotions (the wild chase scenes in "The Invisible Man"). He also had a knack for inserting some really alien stuff into the stories, as well as some truly bleak depictions of what might come to pass.
And he wove in plenty of undeniable science -- bacteria, albinism, evolution and the life cycle of a planet, as well as the question of whether there was life on other worlds. I can only imagine how these books must have expanded the imaginations of the Victorians who read them.
Two of HG Wells' most famous works are brought together in "The Time Machine/The Invisible Man" -- bleak, brilliant sci-fi that needs to be read to be believed.
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Feudalism even within creatures!
I am a great fan of H.G.Wells' work and cannot fault this one at all. It follows the same genre of science fiction as his other works such as The Island of Dr Maurou - which I... Read more
Published 14 months ago by L.Lais
The revelation of a great writer
Of course I was aware of the stories, having watched the relevant films, but up till now I had read only The island of Dr. Moreau, which I liked a lot. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Nikolaos Oikonomidis
Still a great read!
Getting both books together is great value, and I bought them to read out loud to my 10 year old son (so I could give him a hand with the tricky words), which is going very well. Read more
Published 22 months ago by jessie tw18
Science fiction classics in their original form
Excellent stories, well told and at a great price. I'd seen various films based upon these stories but none of them come close to the originals. Read more
Published on 10 Dec 2009
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