H. G. Wells 4 hr 55 min read

Strange and startling stories from the master of the scientific romance, visions, marvels, and quiet catastrophes drawn from the imagination that gave us the Time Machine and the Martians.

H. G. Wells's collected 'Tales of the Unexpected' gathers his shorter fantastic and speculative fiction. Sharp, inventive, superbly told. Read it for the father of modern science fiction in miniature, a selection of his surprising short stories, where the ordinary world is upended by the impossible.

In its time

Published in 1922, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

4 hr 55 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).