The War of The Worlds is about an unnamed narrator who travels through London while the earth is being invaded by martians in tripod looking machines. After the first attack, the narrator takes his wife to stay with family where it is safer. After many attacks, the two become separated and the narrator joins together with another survivor. When the martians eventually leave earth, the two men travel back to London in hopes of rebuilding their society. In the end the narrator and his wife are reunited and face a difficult life ahead of them. In later years a radio adaptation read by Orson Welles griped the nation and cased mass panic.
The Invisible Man is about a scientist named Griffin who has the theory that a persons reflective index can be changed to that of air so that persons body dose not reflect and light. When he does the experiment on himself, he is successful but can not reverse the effects. As a result he become mentally unstable.
The Time Machine Chronicles the events of a group of scientist who invent a machine that can travel into the future. When they travel to the year 802,701 AD, they find a world of humanoids and morlacks. The morlocks hide the time machine, so the travelers must fight the morlocks to go back in time. After a great battle the travelers find the time machine and travel back to their original home. This novel was the inspiration for many movies, comics, and television shows.
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