H. G. Wells ~7 hr read

Thirty tales from the man who all but invented modern science fiction, gathered at the height of his powers.

Assembled in 1897, this Wells collection ranges across the strange and the scientific: an orchid that hungers, a man who wakes in another's body, the depths of the ocean, the eye of a taxidermist, a slip under the microscope. Here is Wells the restless short-story machine, testing the ideas that his great novels would make legendary, dread, wonder, cosmic indifference, and a sly Edwardian wit. Not all are science fiction; all are 'strange.' Read it to watch the genre's founding imagination range freely across everything that unsettles and amazes.

In its time

Published in 1897, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

~7 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).