Dec 15, 2009

The War of the Worlds | Related Titles/Adaptations

Wells wrote several visionary novels similar to The War of the Worlds. These books were called "scientific fantasies" because the term "science fiction" had not yet been invented. The Time Machine focuses on strong social themes about the ethical treatment of the laboring classes in an industrial society, and it, too, has an apocalyptic vision of the future. The First Men in the Moon depicts frightening outer-space monsters, while The Invisible Man features a scientist whose ethics are so confused that he ends up trivializing his brilliant scientific...