H.G. WELLS

At a dinner party in suburban London, the Time Traveller, known to the reader only as the Eminent Scientist, speaks to his guests about the fourth dimension of space--i.e. time. He states that it is possible to travel through time much as one travels through space. The guests are not persuaded, even after seeing the Eminent Scientist's time mach...

Se reúnen en el presente volumen dos de las grandes colecciones originales de cuentos de H.G. Wells: El bacilo robado y otros incidentes, y Cuentos del Espacio y del Tiempo. Ambas colecciones presentan los elementos y temas que han situado a Wells en la cima de los narradores de anticipación científica. Ejercicios de imaginación -como Wells pref...

Prendrick, a survivor of a shipwreck, is picked up by a schooner bound for Noble's Isle. On the island, Prendrick encounters the Beast People, roughly human but with animalistic traits. It turns out that Dr. Moreau, a scientist who came to the island years before, has been developing animals into humans with the help of his assistant Montgomery....