The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds: Introduction by Margaret Drabble (Everyman's Library Classics Series)

The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds: Introduction by Margaret Drabble (Everyman's Library Classics Series)

Gathered together in one hardcover volume: three timeless novels from the founding father of science fiction.<br><br>The first great novel to imagine time travel, <i>The Time Machine</i> (1895) follows its scientist narrator on an incredible journey that takes him finally to Earth€s last moments€"and perhaps his own. The scientist who discovers how to transform himself in <i>The Invisible Man</i> (1897) will also discover, too late, that he has become unmoored from society and from his own sanity. <i>The War of the Worlds</i> (1898)€"the seminal masterpiece of alien invasion adapted by Orson Welles for his notorious 1938 radio drama, and subsequently by several filmmakers€"imagines a fierce race of Martians who devastate Earth and feed on their human victims while their voracious vegetation, the red weed, spreads over the ruined planet.<br><br>Here are three classic science fiction novels that, more than a century after their original publication, show no sign of losing their grip on readers€ imaginations.