Russell's ebook Library
The First Men in the Moon
H. G. Wells
This is one of Wells's greatest novels, and the only one of his scientific romances to embrace space travel.Thanks to the discovery of an anti-gravity metal, Cavorite, two Victorian Englishmen travel to the Moon, where they encounter the extraordinar...
The Food of the Gods
H. G. Wells
As a result of research into the growth curves of living matter, two scientists invent a seemingly miraculous substance called Herakleophorbia IV, nicknamed "The Food of the Gods."Its consumption causes accelerated uninterrupted growth in all forms o...
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
H.G.Wells' great novel of the dangers of science describes a man cast out from society by his own terrifying discovery.THE INVISIBLE MAN tells the story of Griffin, a brilliant and obsessed scientist dedicated to achieving invisibility. Taking whatev...
The Island of Dr. Moreau
H. G. Wells
H.G. Wells's science fiction classic, The Island of Doctor Moreau, asks the reader to consider the limits of natural science and the distinction between men and beasts. A strange mix of science fiction, romance, and philosophical meandering, it is on...
The Shape of Things to Come
H. G. Wells
When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind a powerful legacy - an unpublished 'dream book'.Inspired by visions he has experienced for many years, it appears to be a book written far into the...
The Time Machine; The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
In The Time Machine, Wells's Time Traveller journeys to the world of 802,701 AD, where humanity has divided into the effete, beautiful Eloi and the brutal subterranean Morlocks.In The War of the Worlds, the Martians - intellects 'vast and cool and un...
