Two of H. G. Wells's founding science fiction novels sit together in one volume, one travelling forward through time and the other bringing an invasion to Earth.
The Time Machine sends a Victorian inventor far into the future to find what has become of humanity, a journey that turns into a bleak argument about class and evolution. The War of the Worlds keeps its feet in ordinary English suburbs while Martian machines dismantle them, and its power comes from that contrast between the domestic and the catastrophic. Both were written before the genre had settled its conventions, which is why so much later science fiction reads as a response to them.
Good reasons to pick it up:
• Two complete Wells novels collected in a single volume
• Time travel and alien invasion, each at its point of origin in the genre
• Social commentary on class, progress and human fragility
• Foundational reading for anyone tracing science fiction backwards
Recommended for science fiction readers, literature students and collectors of Victorian fiction, available through Boipoka.
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