Herbert Wells, along with Mary Shelley, Edgar Ellan Poe and Jules Verne, is considered one of the founders of modern science fiction.During his creative life (since 1895) Wells wrote about 40 novels and many short stories, more than a dozen polemical works on philosophical topics and about the same number of works on the reconstruction of society, two world stories, about 30 volumes of political and social predictions.The novels earned the writer the fame of the most significant experimenter in the science fiction genre and showed his ability to make the most daring fiction plausible.Translated by Mykola Ivanov, edited by Dmytro Palamarchuk.