The Time Machine · 1895
An inventor builds a device that carries him far into the future to see what humanity has become. An early landmark of the genre, where a scientific premise turns into an uneasy meditation on where civilisation is heading.
The Island of Doctor Moreau · 1896
A shipwrecked man washes up on a remote island where a scientist runs cruel experiments on living creatures. A dark parable about the limits of science and the thin line between the human and the animal.
The Invisible Man · 1897
