H. G. Wells
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Series
Language
Español
Description
El hombre invisible de H.G. Wells es una novela clásica de ciencia ficción que sigue la historia del Dr. Griffin, un brillante científico que descubre una forma de hacerse invisible. Mientras Griffin experimenta con su nuevo poder, sucumbe a la locura y utiliza su invisibilidad con fines siniestros. La novela explora temas como el poder, la moralidad y las consecuencias de una ambición científica desmedida. A medida que las acciones de Griffin...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1070L
Physical Desc
xvi, 125 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
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Description
A young scientist, to the amazement and disbelief of his colleagues and other experts, has perfected a machine that lets him live one of mankind's oldest dreams, to live in times other than his own.
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
x, 517 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In The Time Machine the Time Traveler journeys to a futuristic environment and people. There he finds that humanity has evolved into two races: the peaceful Eloi--vegetarians who tire easily--and the carnivorous, predatory Morlocks; thus symbolizing the duality of human nature, as these turned upon each other in a primal display of horror. After narrowly escaping from the Morlocks, the Time Traveller undertakes
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Description
Ray Ferrier is a working class man living in New Jersey. He has become estranged from his family and his life isn't in order. His small town life is shaken violently by the arrival of destructive intruders: Aliens which have come up from the ground, en masse, to destroy Earth and all the humans living on it. As the aliens plow through the country in a wave of mass destruction and violence, Ray must put aside thoughts of himself and come to the defense...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a cold day in February, a stranger arrives in the village of Iping. He wears gloves and dark glasses, even inside, and his face is covered in bandages. Soon crimes occur that cannot be explained, and the townspeople realize the unthinkable truth: the strange man is invisible--and he is slowly going mad.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
486 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A sequel to the H.G. Wells classic THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, brilliantly realized by award-winning SF author and Wells expert Stephen Baxter It has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world has moved on, always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian menace. Machinery looted from the abandoned capsules and war-machines has led to technological leaps forward. The Martians are vulnerable to earth germs....
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Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a team of United Nations astronauts prepares for a moon mission, they are confused by a man who claims he, his fiancée and a scientist journeyed to the moon 65 years ago and were attacked by grotesque, human-like forms that live in immense crystal caverns.
Series
Graphic classics volume 3
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
144 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
15) The time machine
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Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
vi, 180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A classic novel of the future follows the Time Traveller as he hurtles one million years into the future and encounters a world populated by two distinct races, the childlike Eloi and the disgusting Morlocks who prey on the Eloi.
Author
Series
Great illustrated classics volume G224-53
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
238 p. : ill. ;hardcover 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
As life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the earth.
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
63 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Graphic novel adaptation of H.G. Wells' The invisible man in which, late one night, a man covered in bandages wanders into a village. The villagers soon grow suspicious of the stranger. When the villagers attempt to arrest him, the stranger suddenly reveals his secret--he is invisible.
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English
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Trapped in a violent, controlling relationship with a wealthy scientist, Cecilia Kass escapes in the dead of night and disappears into hiding. But when her abusive ex commits suicide and leaves her a generous portion of his vast fortune, Cecilia suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of eerie coincidences turns lethal, threatening the lives of those she loves, Cecilia's sanity begins to unravel as she desperately tries to prove that she is being...
19) The time machine
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Desperate to alter the course of time, a visionary scientist invents a revolutionary machine that propels him 800,000 years into the future. There he discovers that humans have evolved into two groups: the hunters and the hunted. Now he must fight to save himself, and all of mankind, in a final, desperate battle.
Series
Criterion collection volume 586
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (70 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet.
Language
English
Description
Laughton is a mad doctor conducting ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.