Tales of Space and Time

Wells' first short story collection, fifteen pieces written while he was still making his name. Anarchists with test tubes, carnivorous orchids and a man who steals a comet, all in a few pages each.

H. G. Wells

Seventeen stories about people who cross into somewhere they should not be. A schoolmaster blown into a parallel world, a diving bell that reaches a city on the sea floor, and a man who trades bodies with a stranger.

H. G. Wells

Thirteen stories that lean comic more often than not. A shop where the magic is real, a drug that speeds you up until the world stops, and a ghost who cannot remember how to leave.

H. G. Wells

Thirty-three stories that Wells selected himself as the ones worth keeping, with his own introduction explaining how he wrote them. The single best entry point to his short fiction.

H. G. Wells

Eight stories built around the moment something impossible opens up in an ordinary life. The title story, about a green door that appears only when its finder cannot afford to walk through it, is the one people remember.

H. G. Wells