THE INVISIBLE MAN

ANN VERONICA

Twenty-one-year-old Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from attending a fashionable ball, she leaves her family home and makes a fresh start in London. There she meets the brilliant Capes, a married academic, and quickly falls in love, but she soon finds that freedom comes at a price…

THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON

The gripping tale of man's first journey to the moon, undertaken by one Mr. Bedford, a bankrupt businessman, and the eccentric scientist Mr. Cavor. Here they discover a sophisticated civilization, dominated by an insectlike race they call the Selenites.

THE ISLAND OF DR MOREAU

Edward Prendick, a naturalist, is shipwrecked on the island retreat of notorious vivisector, Dr Moreau. In a laboratory called the House of Pain, Moreau manufactures 'humanised' animals known as the Beast People, whom he controls through fear - until the terrifying day when one of his degraded victims turns against him.

THE SLEEPER AWAKES

A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. When he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover a hierarchal society in which more than a third of all people are enslaved. Oppressed and uneducated, the masses cling desperately to one dream - that the sleeper will awake, and lead them all to freedom.

THE TIME MACHINE

When a Victorian scientist invents a machine that allows him to travel to the year A.D. 802,701, he encounters a highly evolved society of people called Eloi, and the brutish Morlocks who lurk in tunnels beneath them. His discovery leads him to a horrifying insight into the fate of mankind.

WAR OF THE WORLDS

H. G. Wells' classic vision of interplanetary warfare and a Martian invasion of Earth, and the resulting panic and destruction.