Back in 2012 I created a handy bundle of ebooks for the classic early science fiction and fantastic fiction of H.G. Wells.

This was hosted as a .ZIP on one of my now-lapsed domains, and as such hasn’t been available for a few years now. So I’ve dug it out and uploaded it to archive.org in perpetuity. This .ZIP file contains the following ebooks…

The early science fiction novels:

The Time Machine (1895)
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)
The Invisible Man (1897)
The War of the Worlds (1898)
When the Sleeper Wakes (1899)
The First Men in the Moon (1901)
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904)
In the Days of the Comet (1906)
The War in the Air (1908)
The Sleeper Awakes (Wells’s 1910 revision of When the Sleeper Wakes, the first being said to be the best)

Short story collection:

The Country of the Blind and Other Stories. (You only really need this one collection. Wells wrote that this particular story collection covers: “all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again”. The stories the collection contains were all written between 1894 and 1910.)

Download.

These Kindle versions were checked and viewed and found to be good texts and free of errors. Just unzip and copy the .MOBI files to your Kindle. These works are in the public domain, and were gleaned, downloaded and repackaged for your convenience from open sources.

They won’t be a swishy as the Penguin Classics or other editions, but they’re free and they may save you an hour of hunting and confusion on the Web. It can be especially difficult to find such things by search, as there’s a lot of crapware when it comes to public domain books. That goes for Amazon too, where you’re highly likely to be mis-directed multiple times in such a search.

Also, one might usefully pair these with the early journalistic ‘science writing’ the young Wells was publishing in newspapers and small journals at this time. For which see the book H. G. Wells: Early Writings in Science and Science Fiction (University of California Press), also freely available at Archive.org in Kindle .MOBI format.