Books written by Herbert George Wells

The First Men in the Moon finishes Well’s series of “scientific romances” which was begun by The Time Machine. Two gentlemen decided to give up their boring lives in Kent and make a trip to the moon, but there they got imprisoned by native inhabitants Selenites. Mr. Bedford and Mr. Cavor have to resist the circumstances. The First Men in the Moon is not just an entertaining science-fiction work but also a talented satire on imperialistic regime and human imperfection.

Herbert Wells was the pioneer of science fiction genre (later known as scientific romances). In The Time Machine which was published in 1895 he for the first time comes up with an idea of time travelling with a machine. Wells wrote plenty of novels where he was talking about current tendencies, contemporary problem and perspectives of humanity. Seems that Wells believes in progress and technology but fears that humanity and moral rules are being forgotten. Morality is one of the central issues in the story. What Wells is really worries about is the huge gap between elite and the most of people. With the help of time machine the author tries to predict how this problem would develop in future 800,000 years later.

The Island of Dr Moreau is brilliant novel of a famous science-fiction writer where he tells us a story about a crazy doctor who vivisects animals and creates monsters. One day a ship wreck took place near the island and people who survived that got acquainted with it and its inhabitants. This piece of literature is an example of social satire and a precursor of scientific achievements.

Novel by George Orwell was published in 1949 as a warning about the menaces of totalitarianism. The novel is set in an imaginary future world that is dominated by three perpetually warring totalitarian police states. The book's hero, Winston Smith, is a minor party functionary in one of these states. His longing for truth and decency leads him to secretly rebel against the government. Smith has a love affair with a like-minded woman, but they are both arrested by the Thought Police. The ensuing imprisonment, torture, and reeducation of Smith are intended not merely to break him physically or make him submit but to root out his independent mental existence and his spiritual dignity. Orwell's warning of the dangers of totalitarianism made a deep impression on his contemporaries and upon subsequent readers, and the book's title and many of its coinages, such as NEWSPEAK, became bywords for modern political abuses.