The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds (Borders Classics)

240 pp. In his "scientific romances," H. G. Wells was less concerned with scientific principles than with the need to show how human arrogance tends to unleash ferociously destructive forces. In The Time Machine, for example, the pleasure-loving Eloi are preyed on by the brutish Morlocks- an outcome Wells thought likely if capitalism continues unchecked. The need for mankind's humility is most pointed in The War of the Worlds, where nothing human is able to stopthe Martian takeover of Earth.