Książka uważana jest za jedną z najważniejszych w historii światowej literatury fantastycznej. Należy do kanonu gatunku i na wiele lat wprowadziła fantastykę na tory apokaliptycznych wizji przyszłości. Powieść przedstawia inwazję Marsjan na Ziemię. Przybysze chcą opanować Ziemię, a ludzie stanowić mają dla nich źródło pożywienia. Wells opisał w swojej wizji różne postawy społeczne przejawiane przez ludzi w obliczu globalnego zagrożenia (za Wikipedią). Książka w dwóch wersjach...

Haviland Tuf jest podróżnikiem i rzetelnym, aczkolwiek drobnym międzygwiezdnym kupcem. Dzięki niezwykłemu splotowi zdarzeń staje się właścicielem wiekowego, długiego na wiele mil statku - bazy ziemskiego Inżynierskiego Korpusu Ekologicznego. Zbudowany jako śmiercionośna broń, statek ów chroni sekrety zapomnianej dziedziny nauki. Funkcjonuje wystarczająco sprawnie, aby za pomocą inżynierii genetycznej i technik klonowania produkować dziesiątki tysięcy roz...

Żelazny Tron jednoczył Zachodnie Królestwa aż do śmierci króla Roberta. Wdowa jednak zdradziła królewskie ideały, bracia wszczęli wojnę, a Sansa została narzeczoną mordercy ojca, który teraz okrzyknął sie królem. Zresztą w każdym z królestw, od Smoczej Wyspy po Koniec Burzy, dawni wasale Żelaznego Tronu ogłaszają się królami. Pewnego dnia z Cytadeli przylatuje biały kruk, przynosząc zapowiedź końca lata, jakie pamiętali żyjący ludzie. Najgroźniejszym wrogiem dla wszys...

Mroczna opowieść w stylu dark fantasy o podziemnym świecie pełnym cudów i grozy Pod walącym się w gruzy miastem na zapomnianej planecie kryje się świat pełen spisków i zdrady. Młody Annelyn wiódł w podziemnym mieście życie człowieka uprzywilejowanego, ale gdy na oczach jego szlachetnie urodzonych przyjaciół upokorzył go sprytny łowca grounów zwany Dostarczycielem Mięsa Annelyn, na spółkę z tymi samymi przyjaciółmi, stworzył skomplikowany plan, mający mu umożliwić wywarci...

No writer captured the excitement, humanity, or adventure of the American West better than Max Brand. And nowhere was Brand’s talent more evident than in this Classic Western. Prolific in many genres he wrote historical novels, detective mysteries, pulp fiction stories and many more. In this one of his short novel, „Soft Metal,” Larry Givain, fleeing from a posse, meets a beautiful woman at a deserted cabin belonging to one of the men in the posse. Her brother is also holed...

If you love thrilling adventure stories with twist and turns then this Western adventure will offer you just what you need. It tells the story of a decent young man, Andrew Lanning , who through a couple of unlucky breaks, is forced into the life of a desperado. He made one mistake in the beginning, and now the most feared lawman in the mountain desert, Hal Dozier, is on his trail and will stop at nothing to bring the outlaw Lanning to justice. But is Andrew guilty of all t...

The "Thunder Moon" series by the very prolific author Frederick Faust (published under his favorite pseudonym Max Brand) is a series of pulp fiction Western and adventure novels. In order, the works appear in four volumes as "The Legend of Thunder Moon", "Red Wind and Thunder Moon", "Thunder Moon and the Sky People", and "Farewell, Thunder Moon". Thunder Moon was the adopted son of a great warrior, unaware that he was born the son of a white man. And though he grew bigger a...

Renowned Western writer Max Brand does it again in the eminently enjoyable Adventure Classics "The Boy Who Found Christmas ". Packed with enough action and romance to please even the most die-hard fans of the genre, the work also addresses a wide range of important themes with insight and sensitivity. This classic’s appeal extends far beyond the core audience for Westerns - give it to a yet-to-be-won-over friend or loved one, and soon they’ll be clamoring for more. The plot...

Mr. Parham is a university academic of the traditional, classical sort, very much a snob and unhappy with many of the social trends of the time. Sir Bussy Woodcock is a self-made millionaire of sharp intelligence and great energy but lowly beginnings and no cultural education. This unlikely pair meet by chance and form an intermittent relationship. In an attempt to foster this acquaintance that goes on for six years, Mr. Parham finds himself involved in séances that summon ...

This story is essentially the history of the opening and of the realisation of the Great War as it happened to one small group of people in Essex, and more particularly as it happened to one human brain. „Mr. Britling Sees It Through” begins with a lighthearted account of an American visiting England for the first time, but the outbreak of war changes everything. Day by day and month by month, Wells chronicles the unfolding events and public reaction as witnessed by the inh...

„In the Days of the Comet” is set in early 20th century England and covers Willie, a socialist who is angry and frustrated with everything to do with the world he lives in. The only thing Willie finds beautiful and tranquil is the love of his life, Nettie. The story follows Willie and his lust for Nettie as he finds himself perplexed by what the love of his life decides to do. The comet is referred back to quite often and eventually, when it hits, it brings some sort of cle...

Wells’s satire on literature, „Boon” was originally published under the pseudonym Reginald Bliss; a follow-up to the Fabian-savaging „The New Machiavelli”. It purports, however, to be by the fictional character Reginald Bliss, and for some time after publication Wells denied authorship. „Boon” is best known for its part in Wells’s debate on the nature of literature with Henry James, who is caricatured in the book. But in „Boon” Wells also mocks himself, calling into questio...

Short story told as an allegory set in the future, in form of narrative, with some trenchant remarks on the current situation, and a brilliant introduction to which the balance fails to measure up. Dialogs between God and Mr. Noah Lammock planning a new Ark in which the best of mankind may be rescued from the new flood of war and horror. Wells-Lammock querying of Biblical history is irreverent but amusing, but the plans which follow, for the Аrk and its voyaging, bog down c...

Herbert George Wells is a huge name in the world of literature. He is known as the king of Science Fiction stories. He was an accomplished teacher, a best-selling novelist, a historian and a journalist, however, he established his name in the world through his passion for writing and will be remembered forever as „Father of Science Fiction”. „The King Who Was a King – The Book of a Film” is a fascinating treatise on the development of film written by H. G. Wells and first p...

Depicting one man’s transformation and descent into brutality, H.G. Wells’s „The Invisible Man” is a riveting exploration of science’s power to corrupt. In this tale of psychological terror, a young scientist must live in the personal hell created by his own experiments. Using himself as the subject, the scientist discovers the key to invisibility; yet, he is unable to reverse the results. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but begins to become mentally ...

Towards the end of his career, Wells write this book, in which he outlined his vision of Utopia. This is the story of a Mr. Barnstaple, an everyday man, who finds himself propelled into a parallel universe with a group of famous politicians, aristocrats, and their chauffeurs. The world they find themselves in has abolished all disease, and everyone only works at what takes their fancy. The inhabitants of this world speak telepathically, and recognise that the Earth is curre...

„The Dream” by H.G Wells follows the character, Sarnac, who lives a whole other life as Harry Mortimer Smith. Sarnac is at the height of his career as a scientist by discovering new research. Sarnac goes with his friends including his girlfriend, Sunray to escape for the holidays. Little does Sarnac know that he would be dreaming a whole new life as a different person. His dream world is peculiar rules and what is socially acceptable than reality. The roles of each member i...

This novel is a great document illustrating the anticipation of comings of the 20th century. This early H.G. Wells’ tale is about a 20 year old man who has a job as a Drapers Assistant, a job which he is probably too old for. Loaded with poor self esteem and a second class status, poor Mr. Hoopdriver takes a ten day holiday. On this holiday he falls for a young socialite named Jessie who is rebelling against her stepmother and society. She soon falls prey to a married man t...

„You Can’t be Too Careful” is a sketch of one way of life – the life path, cowardly man, in fear, made a lot of dirty tricks. He never forgot that „necessary caution”, and helped unleash the Second world war. He believed everything he was told, he did what he was told. Not it is done by world Affairs, he was only a humble and law-abiding. But he relied all those who would, in the words of wells, „to increase the amount of the world’s evil”. He was one of the men who develop...

This book was written in 1899, and is one of the last science-fiction books Wells wrote before his turn towards social realism in his writing. In this dystopian novel, Graham falls into a coma-like sleep, a sleep that he wakes from some 203 years in the future. But times have changed. Due to the wise investments of a board of trustees, Graham’s money has compounded into the greatest fortune the world has ever seen, and the trustees have used it to virtually enslave the enti...

Dedicated to all schoolmasters and schoolmistresses and every teacher in the world, this re-interpretation of the Book of Job is one of the author’s finest discussion novels. Written in 1918, this is the story of Job Huss, the headmaster of a progressive school. It is saturated with the ideas of educational reform and of the teaching of world history as the basis for a common civilization and is one of his most ambitious dialogue narratives. Essentially it is a modernized p...

No writer captured the excitement, humanity, or adventure of the American West better than Max Brand. And nowhere was Brand’s talent more evident than in this classic short novel. Prolific in many genres he wrote historical novels, detective mysteries, pulp fiction stories and many more. In „The three crosses”, a practical joke gets out of hand and turns an earnest cowboy into a hard-riding yahoo. „The Three Crosses,” an ominous prediction leads a cowpuncher to a showdown w...

Nie będziesz dostrzegać niczego, słyszeć niczego. Nie będziesz myśleć nic innego, tylko Svengali, Svengali, Svengali! Maestro Svengali jest zimnym, pozbawionym skrupułów człowiekiem, wykorzystującym ludzi do własnych celów za sprawą stosowanej od lat hipnozy. Kiedy przypadkiem spotyka w mieszkaniu sąsiadów prześliczną Trilby, zakochuje się w niej bez pamięci. Dziewczyna jednak ma na oku kogoś innego… Obsesja starszego człowieka połączona z umiejętnością perswazji powoduj...

Klasyczna powieść science fiction, kilkakrotnie ekranizowana (m.in. przez Stevena Spielberga), a w roku 1938 przerobiona przez Orsona Wellesa na słuchowisko radiowe, którego emisja przeszła do historii. Głównym bohaterem jest nieznany z imienia pisarz i filozof, mieszkający w niewielkim miasteczku na południu Anglii, który opisuje swe losy podczas inwazji groźnych przybyszy z Marsa. Wells w swym dziele ukazuje nie tylko techniczne aspekty starcia dwóch cywilizacji, ale stawia...