Futures Before Their Time

Futures Before Their Time is a curated digital library centered on scientific romance, early science fiction, future societies, technological change, cosmic speculation, and strange invention.

A concentrated library of early science fiction and speculative thought exploring time travel, alien invasion, invisible men, future war, social transformation, strange biology, utopias, and technological change. These works helped define the imaginative vocabulary of modern speculative fiction.

Designed for readers who want a coherent collection rather than an undifferentiated archive, this edition brings together 38 individually listed works in one themed library.

📚 Includes:

• The Time Machine — H. G. Wells
• The War of the Worlds — H. G. Wells
• The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance — H. G. Wells
• The Island of Doctor Moreau — H. G. Wells
• Tales of Space and Time — H. G. Wells
• The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories — H. G. Wells
• The Red Room — H. G. Wells
• The World Set Free — H. G. Wells
• The New Machiavelli — H. G. Wells
• The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories — H. G. Wells
• The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents — H. G. Wells
• The Sleeper Awakes — H. G. Wells
• The First Men in the Moon — H. G. Wells
• Twelve Stories and a Dream — H. G. Wells
• The War in the Air — H. G. Wells
• A Modern Utopia — H. G. Wells
• The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth — H. G. Wells
• Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought — H. G. Wells
• Thirty Strange Stories — H. G. Wells
• When the Sleeper Wakes — H. G. Wells
• The Soul of a Bishop — H. G. Wells
• The Secret Places of the Heart — H. G. Wells
• The Research Magnificent — H. G. Wells
• The Plattner Story, and Others — H. G. Wells
• In the Days of the Comet — H. G. Wells
• The Wonderful Visit — H. G. Wells
• Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump — H. G. Wells
• The Sea Lady — H. G. Wells
• What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War — H. G. Wells
• The Discovery of the Future — H. G. Wells
• Tales of the Unexpected — H. G. Wells
• The Dream: A Novel — H. G. Wells
• The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution — H. G. Wells
• The Salvaging of Civilization — H. G. Wells
• A Year of Prophesying — H. G. Wells
• The Way the World Is Going: Guesses and Forecasts of the Years Ahead — H. G. Wells
• The Undying Fire: A Contemporary Novel — H. G. Wells
• Bealby: A Holiday — H. G. Wells