Time Machine. War of the Worlds. The island of Dr. Moro

"Time Machine", "Island of Dr. Moro", "War of the Worlds". Three novels that set the tonality of almost the entire literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. "Time Machine" (1895) gave rise to innumerable works about traveling along the axis of time. "Island of Dr. Moro" (1896) is a novel about the origin of consciousness in an unusual society, which has just received a human appearance. It seems that cognitive psychology is only now approaching those insights that have overshadowed the author at the end of the 19th century. "War of the Worlds" (1898) is not about the Martians at all. This is a novel about people who find themselves in inhuman conditions. Some surrender, others hide, others are fighting. And it is precisely the people who are not bacteria who destroyed Martian at all that the Martian. They prevail - in the sense that William Faulkner once expressed in his speech when receiving the Nobel Prize: I refuse to accept the end of the person ... I believe that a person will not only stand - he will win. Three novels. Three most important highways of literature. The author is one. Herbert Wells (1896 -1946).
Translation from English and the accompanying article by Vitaly Babenko.
Vitaly Timofeevich Babenko (b. 1950) - science fiction writer, journalist, translator, publisher, TV presenter. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University and professional publishing courses of Standford University. The author of more than twenty books. He translated the prose of Herbert Wells, Ray Bradbury, Robert Sheckley, Isaek Azimov and other classics of science fiction. In 1988, he founded and headed the publishing house "Text". He worked in the publishers "Vagrius" and "Book Club 36.6". Laureate of the award named after I. Efremova