Wells, H. G.

The Time Machine

A mechanical contraption that lets you travel back in time. Classic steampunk from a classic author.

The War Of The Worlds

This is the only book on this list that doesn't actually set foot on Mars, so in a sense it's not a Martian novel at all. But it was the...

The First Men In The Moon

First Men in the Moon was the last of the great run of genre-defining scientific romances that Wells wrote in the first years of his career, it is also the...

Men Like Gods

Possibly the first Alternate History novel that posits cross-time travel in a physical sense.

The Island of Doctor Moreau

Biopunk has its roots in this novel where Dr. Moreau experiments on animals and has themes of pain, cruelty, human identity and moral responsibility

The Shape of Things to Come

This story is a frame of future events on Earth, which includes the establishment of a world state as a solution to humanity's problems.