Fantastyka i Horror

This is a short novel about a nineteen century Englishman who falls in a deep sleep only to awake over two hundred years later. The World has changed beyond recognition, and „The Sleeper” finds himself in a remarkable predicament – he has become the owner of the entire planet. However, his awakening profoundly shakes this state of affairs, and he suddenly finds himself at the very center of revolutionary social upheavals and a struggle for the ultimate power. But when he co...

„The Shape of Things to Come” is one of the great classics of science fiction. Originally written in 1929, this masterly work of science fiction has already confirmed H G Wells’ status as a remarkable soothsayer, and provides glimpses of what is perhaps yet to come. The book is written as a sort of historical account. It tells of how a world state could be considered an answer to Earth’s problems. After a large plague wipes out much of humanity, a dictatorship takes over, t...

This charming, little-known fantasy by the author of „The Time Machine” and „The War of the Worlds” is also a sharply satirical look at the mores and moral of Edwardian England. During a family outing at the beach a family sees a young woman struggling further out in the water. It’s only when they „rescue” her that they see that she’s a mermaid. They quickly take her into the beach house, still unaware that the mermaid has planned the whole incident in order to meet a young...

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...

Cezar po zakończeniu konsulatu udaje się wraz z legionami do Galii, aby objąć namiestnictwo. Wojna wisi na włosku. Galvan, pragnąc zapewnić sobie silną pozycję wśród celtyckich plemion, poślubia córkę wodza Swebów, Ariowista. Sytuacja komplikuje się, gdy Cezar wypowiada Ariowistowi wojnę. Galvan musi opowiedzieć się za lub przeciw wojnie z Rzymianami. Jest rozdarty między obowiązkiem nałożonym na niego przez Scatah a lojalnością wobec plemienia, które nie chce mieszać s...

Żyjąc tak długo, Michelle nauczyła się jednego: kiedy los daje ci kilka chwil szczęścia, złap je mocno i nie puszczaj, bo prędko mogą się nie powtórzyć. Tak też zrobiła, kiedy w jej życiu ponownie pojawił się brutalnie zabity przed laty brat, a na horyzoncie zajaśniała szansa na długo wyczekiwaną miłość ukochanego. Jednak radość Michelle z odzyskania Caanana zostaje zakłócona przez serię niepokojących zdarzeń, które bezsprzecznie wskazują na pojawienie się kolejnego wro...

Dwudziestopięcioletni Jack jako dziecko uległ wypadkowi samochodowemu, w którym zginęli jego rodzice. Gdy leżał w szpitalu, na jego piersi pojawiły się cztery znamiona, a w powracającym śnie widział cztery dwuletnie dziewczynki i słyszał słowa: znajdź, ucz, chroń. Jako dorosły mężczyzna odszukał cztery dziewczyny. Każda ma na ciele jedno z jego znamion. Wszystkie są pięknymi kobietami o nieprzeciętnej inteligencji, urodzonymi czternastego czerwca, dokładnie dwa lata po ...

Jak wygląda świat w antymaterii? Czy w odległej przyszłości życie w znanej nam formie będzie możliwe? Co jest po drugiej stronie lustra? ,,Stan wyższej świadomości” to historia człowieka, który, nie zdając sobie z tego sprawy, stracił wszystko, zyskując wiedzę. Na świecie zaczynają dziać się niepokojące wydarzenia. Kobiety w ciąży padają ofiarami bestialskich mordów, znikają dzieci zabrane z łona matek. Astronomowie obserwują dziwne zjawisko, tajemniczą mgłę zbliżającą ...

„Opowieści celtyckie. Początek” to pierwszy z trzech tomów niesamowitych przygód Galvana Wercyngetoryksa i Juliusza Cezara! Nad kraj Celtów nadciąga niebezpieczeństwo ze strony rosnącej w siłę potęgi Rzymu. Gdy na świat przychodzi syn wodza Arwernów, Galvan, druidzi upatrują w nim wybrańca bogów, który wedle przepowiedni odnowi blask celtyckiej chwały i zjednoczy wszystkie plemiona, dając początek silnemu imperium. Po tragicznej śmierci ojca chłopiec...

„Opowieści celtyckie. Droga do władzy” to kontynuacja niesamowitych przygód Galvana Wercyngetoryksa i Juliusza Cezara! Galvan po wieloletniej nauce wraca do domu, aby objąć władzę nad krajem Arwernów. Wkrótce okazuje się, że nie tylko jego status jest zagrożony, ale również życie, kiedy wychodzi na jaw, że na czele morderców jego ojca stał stryj Cynnus, który podczas nieobecności swego bratanka sprawował rządy w jego imieniu. Aby zdobyć władzę, Galvan musi iść drog...

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 ...

On a deceivingly beautiful island in the South Seas exists the sinister kingdom of Doctor Moreau. Edward Prendick is shipwrecked in the Pacific. Rescued by Doctor Moreau’s assistant he is taken to the doctor’s island home where he discovers the doctor has been experimenting on the animal inhabitants of the island, creating bizarre proto-humans...The main plot, a shunned biologist, Dr. Moreau, attempting to create a new species of animals by combining biological elements of ...

What happens when science tampers with nature? Mr. Bensington and Mr. Redwood create a new food material, Herakleophorbia, later called Boomfood, they hope will have beneficial uses to mankind. They come up with a substance that causes flora, fauna, and people to become giants. At first, there are giant nettles, mushrooms – but then it ramps up, with giant rats that can take down and eat horses and wasps so large one could hear them half a mile off. In the end it becomes a ...

Another H.G. Wells classic sci fi. The novel tells the story of a journey to the moon by the impecunious businessman Mr. Bedford and the brilliant but eccentric scientist Dr. Cavor. Bedford bankrupt businessman who is making a comeback by writing a play, through a series of circumstances, teams up with Professor Cavor a recluse scientist who does not realize his own potential. Together they build a contraption, sphere, that can cut off gravity waves. Once on the moon Bedfor...

A fictional biography of Rudolf „Rud” Whitlow, who builds a political party that slowly becomes a world dominant dictatorship. Wells wrote the work just before World War II as Hitler was consolidating his power in Germany. Rud, is a baby boy, and later, grew to be a young man who had a remarkable talent of oratory: the gift of gab. He is eventually encouraged to perform public speaking, lecturing and finally, revolutionary speeches. Through this character, Wells creates a p...

„The Brothers – A Story.” Herbert George Wells was a prolific English writer who wrote in a variety of genres, including the novel, politics, history, and social commentary. Wells returned to a literary genre in which he had always excelled: the satire written in the form of an allegory. In a land torn apart by civil war, Bolaris was fiercely loyal to the Strong Men. So when Number Four informed him that Ratzel, leader of the enemy, had been captured, it was naturally a cau...

This story was the first work of fiction in which an explorer traverses time through the use of a man-made device – a time machine – rather than through magic, divine intervention, or a natural phenomenon such as sleep. HG Wells’s „The Chronic Argonauts”, written seven years before his much more famous time travel work, „The Time Machine”. The mysterious Dr. Moses Nebogipfel arrives in a small Welsh town in 1887. The apprehensions of the simple rural folk eventually cause t...

Wells’s treatise on education is set in the region of Camford (Cambridge/Oxford), and tells of a visitor who proves that education can save the world from destruction. The story centres around a Utopian ’ventriloquist’ who subjects human life and in particular its treatment by the University of Camford to sympathetic but quite unsparing scrutiny. At its core, it was a warning to the educational world of imminent war and of its lack of action, as well as an exploration of th...

„The Bulpington of Blup”, a 1932 novel by H. G. Wells, is a character study analyzing the psychological sources of resistance to Wellsian ideology, and was influenced by Wells’s acquaintance with Carl Gustav Jung and his ideas. Theodore Bulpington is a very ordinary man – with a very vivid imagination. Ill at ease with himself, he sees a way to recreate his identity by adding layer upon layer of deception. This he does with such panache that eventually he becomes an imposto...

A soul-corrupting evil invades the remote English village of Cainsmarsh, infesting the minds of the local residents. Dark events are plaguing its people. An elderly woman stiffens in dread at her own shadow; a terrified farmer murders a scarecrow; food prepared by others is eyed with suspicion; family pets are bludgeoned to death; loving couples are devoured by rage and violence. People are becoming suspicious of every move each other makes. Children are coming to school wi...

„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...

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 ...

The story centers on Joseph Davis, a popular writer of romanticized histories, who comes to believe that some people differ fundamentally from most of us. They are more rational, possibly more talented and intelligent. His wife has increasingly become a stranger, the imminent birth of his first child has left him in a panicked state, and his rosy-tinted histories have lately begun to strike him as so much bosh. And then he overhears a conversation at his Planetarium Club, i...

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...