?Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.? Herbert George Wells, known as H. G. Wells, was one of the most prolific writers of English fiction and non-fiction. The author's many science fiction novels have earned him the title of 'Father of Science Fiction'. In addition to writing, he was also a social critic whose almost prophetic ideas predicted the development of air travel, space travel, satellite television, nuclear weapons, the internet, and more. Titles in This Set : 1. The War of the Worlds When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people of the Earth must come to terms with the prospect of the end of human civilization and the beginning of Martian rule. Inspiring films, radio dramas, comic-book adaptations, television series and sequels,The War of the Worlds is a prototypical work of science fiction which has influenced every alien story that has come since, and is unsurpassed in its ability to thrill, well over a century since it was first published.