The Country of the Blind and Other Stories

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

Three long stories and two short ones, ranging from the stone age to a future city of thirty million people. Includes A Story of the Days To Come, the closest Wells came to writing cyberpunk.

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

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