H G Wells Science Fiction Omnibus, (Unabridged) the Time Machine, the War of the Worlds, the Shape of Things to Come, the Invisible Man, the Island of

H. G. Wells (1866-1946), alongside Jules Verne, has been given the title "Father of Science Fiction" In 1898 he wrote the War of the Worlds: "Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those...