"From the father of science fiction comes two masterpieces of speculative storytelling. The time machine propels the reader into the distant future, where a decaying Earth is being gradually swallowed by the sun and where two strange species -- the delicate Eloi and the fierce, subterranean Morlocks -- inhabit an eerie dystopia. The invisible man offers the mesmerizing account of a bitter young scientist who discovers the chemical secret of invisibility, uses it on himself, and embarks on a terifying descent into crime, obsession, and insanity"--Jacket flap.