Tono-Bungay, published in 1909, is a semi-autobiographical novel by H. G. Wells. Though it has some fantastical and absurdist elements, it is a realist novel rather than one of Well’s “scientific romances.”

The novel is written in the first person from the point of view of George Ponderevo, the son of the housekeeper at a large estate. He is made to feel

A deviously brilliant inventor is out to control the world in this 1904 thriller by the pioneering science fiction author.

Reports of strange occurrences in the mountains of South Carolina have reached the desk of government agent John Strock. Though the Blue Ridge Mountains are not volcanic, rumblings and smoke have led some to fear an eruption. Then new reports emerge of unidentified objects racing across air, land, and water at