The collection of works by the English writer H.G. Wells includes his best science fiction novels, which have become a kind of Author’s calling card and a classic of “warning literature”: “The Time Machine” (1895) – a gloomy story about the life of mankind of the 802701 model, “The Island of Doctor Moreau” (1896) and “The Invisible Man” (1897) – stories about amazing experiments carried out by brilliant and mad scientists who boldly violate the laws of nature, legal prohibitions and moral norms, and “War of the Worlds” (1897) is one of the first books on the theme of alien aggression that threatens the existence of humanity, popular in later literature and cinema. “When the Sleeper Awakens” (1898–1899)” and “The First Men on the Moon” (1901) are examples of Wells’ social fiction, in which various negative models of social order are played out (be it a lunar hierarchical “anthill” society ruled by the Great Lunarium, or a totalitarian regime established by the White Council on Earth at the end of the 21st century) and the possibilities of changing them.