Six stories made famous for their early (1800's) sci-fi influencers...but made more remarkable for the political, environmental and social messaging in each.
Did anyone else read Food of the Gods and think about the ripple effects of DDT or Rachel Carson?

Great collection of six hugely influential works. Wells' novels are one of the foundations of modern science fiction. The Food of the Gods and The First Men in the Moon are weaker than the other four, but all are worth reading. This has everything - time travel, space travel, alien encounters, evil experiments. All have a touch of social commentary about Victorian England that's still relevant today, but all can be read and enjoyed as straight sci-fi adventure stories.

It's H.G. Wells, need I say any more? The father of science fiction.