Science fiction

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...

„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...

Stella has it all – looks, intelligence and an undergraduate place at Cambridge, not to mention Gemini, her fervent admirer at Oxford. Stella and Gemini, the two babes of the story, come increasingly under the influence of a rather impressive psycho-therapeutist whose groundbreaking theories capture their imaginations. But when tragedy strikes they are soon to learn that intellectualism brings cold comfort. When James is disowned by his wrathful relatives, he goes to Russia...

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...

H.G Wells wrote many tales of adventure and exploration, which were fascinating to early twentieth century readers as transportation to faraway lands was so difficult back then. Wells’ „Modern Utopia” was first published in 1905. It set the scene for many modern, scientific utopias and dystopias. The story is set on a planet very like earth. The Utopian Planet differs from earth in that the inhabitants have created a perfect society. Two men, the narrator and his colleague ...

Gdy Calamity rozświetliła niebo, zrodzili się Epicy. Od tamtej pamiętnej nocy życie Davida jest nierozerwalnie związane z ich zbrodniami Stalowe Serce zabił jego ojca. Pożar skradł mu serce. A teraz Regalia zamieniła jego najlepszego sprzymierzeńca w groźnego wroga. David znał tajemnicę Profesora i zatrzymał ją dla siebie nawet wtedy, gdy Profesor z trudem panował nad swoją mocą Epika. Jednak starcie ze Znikającym w Babilarze przeważyło szalę. Były przywódca Mścicieli...

Kiedy rodzi się moc, pojawia się żądza… Świat zrodził się z chaosu. Oni zaś zostali stworzeni, by utrzymywać harmonię między dobrem a złem. Dysponowali Magią Żywiołów oraz posiadali kodeks, któremu byli wierni. Do czasu… Kiedy dwójka Strażników sprzeciwia się zasadom, rodzi się moc, której nikt nie jest w stanie przezwyciężyć…i którą ktoś pragnie posiąść. Kiedy Eresteja rozpoczyna szkolenie swojej następczyni, nawet nie podejrzewa, jak bardzo zmieni się jej życie… ...

To kolejny kiepski rok Kyle’a Riggsa. Okręty nanitów mają nową misję – ale to wyrok śmierci dla pilotów. Do tego ziemski rząd zamierza skraść technologię Sił Gwiezdnych. Co gorsza, Ziemia obiecała coś makrosom i maszyny wkrótce upomną się o to... Wojna wśród gwiazd nie zakończy się szybko. I nikt nie ma pojęcia, jaki będzie jej finał.

W moim świecie nic nie jest oczywiste – ludzie, którzy żyją dookoła mnie, bywają potworami, a potwory… no cóż, możecie nie wierzyć, czasem są niewinne, a przy tym zupełnie bezbronne. I jesteśmy jeszcze my – świadomi istnienia nadnaturalnych strażnicy sprawiedliwości na granicy dwóch światów. Całe moje życie to ulubiona spluwa, solidne kopniaki adrenaliny i banda, która jest dla mnie jak rodzina. Przynajmniej tak było do czasu, kiedy tuż przed naszym nosem, w tajemniczy...

Przed czterdziestu laty pozaziemski wirus stworzył obdarzone nadludzkimi możliwościami istoty znane jako asowie i dżokerzy. Od tej pory toczą one walkę o swe prawa i szacunek Akcja szóstego tomu cyklu Dzikie karty  rozgrywa się podczas konwencji prezydenckiej Partii Demokratycznej w Atlancie. W centrum konferencyjnym Omni panuje groza. Fanatyczny przywódca religijny pragnie pozbawić dzikie karty wszelkich praw, a ukryty as władający potężną mocą zamierza wpłynąć na wynik...

Czasem badania genetyczne są przyczyną katastrofy, a nie przełomu. Kiedy w Mieście Krokodyli dochodzi do krwawego stłumienia pokojowej konferencji asymilacyjnej, nikt jeszcze nie podejrzewa, do czego doprowadzi konflikt między Miastem Krokodyli a Twierdzą Kimerydu. Organizatorce konferencji, Annie Guiteerez, antropolog z Uniwersytetu Krokodyli, udaje się zbiec z samego centrum zamieszek i uratowana przez strażnika wąwozu Tyrsa Mollinę, pół człowieka, pół raptora, trafia ...