Short Fiction

<p><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/h-g-wells"><abbr>H. G.</abbr> Wells</a> is probably best known for his imaginative longer works, such as his novels <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/h-g-wells/the-war-of-the-worlds"><i>The War of the Worlds</i></a> and <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/h-g-wells/the-invisible-man"><i>The Invisible Man</i></a>; but he was also a prolific short story writer. This Standard Ebooks edition of his short fiction includes fifty-four of Wells’ stories, written between 1894 and 1909 and compiled from the collections <i>The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents</i> (1895), <i>The Plattner Story and Others</i> (1897), <i>Tales of Time and Space</i> (1899), <i>Twelve Stories and a Dream</i> (1903) and <i>The Country of the Blind and Other Stories</i> (1911). They are presented here in approximate order of first publication.</p>
<p>The stories vary wildly in genre and theme, ranging from tales of domestic romance, to ghost stories and tropical adventures, to far-future science fiction. Interestingly, many of the stories deal with the exciting but also frightening prospect of heavier-than-air flight and aerial warfare, and it is worth noting that these stories were written some years before the Wright brothers first took to the air.</p>