The Time Machine/The Invisible Man

Here are two masterpieces of irony and imaginative vision from the father of science fiction. The Time Machine propels the Time Traveller into a distant, dismal future. The Invisible Man tells of a brash young scientist who becomes invisible, then insane. This volume features a new Afterword. Revised reissue. nTogether in one indispensable volume, The Time Machine and The Invisible Man are masterpieces of irony and imaginative vision from H. G. Wells, the father of science fiction. nThe Time Machine conveys the Time Traveller into the distant future and an extraordinary world. There, stranded on a slowly dying Earth, he discovers two bizarre races: the effete Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks--a haunting portrayal of Darwin's evolutionary theory carried to a terrible conclusion. n nThe Invisible Man is the fascinating tale of a brash young scientist who, experimenting on himself, becomes invisible and then criminally insane, trapped in the terror of his own creation. n nConvincing and unforgettably real, these two classics are consummate representations of the stories that defined science fiction--and inspired generations of readers and writers. n nWith an Introduction by John Calvin Batchelor nand an Afterword by Paul Youngquistn