year as his gorey fantasy The Island Of Doctor Moreau, he also published the light and cheerful novel The Wheels of Chance: A holiday Adventure. The Wheels Of Chance: A Holiday Adventure tells about a draper's assistant (Wells was a drapers apprentice when he was younger, which is why it is believed he used a draper's assistant as the occupation of the man) who sets off on a cycling holiday and comes to the rescue of a maiden in distress. This book wasn't nearly as much as a success as The Island Of Doctor Moreau, but it shows the flexibility contained in his writings and thoughts.The year after H.G. Wells wrote The Wheels of Chance, he returned to the fantastic and unrealistic genre with The Invisible Man. It is about a man with a bandaged face, who wears dark blue glasses and has a false nose. The man becomes frusturated and starts a life of crime and violence. He then gets into an ordeal with the police, and runs away from the town, and that is the end. Wells's next novel, The War Of The Worlds, which appeared in 1898, is probably his most famous work. It is about Martians, arriving from their planet in ten cylinders at twenty-four-hour intervals, and they devastate the whole country, especially London. The Martians in his novel look like brain, floating in a brown liquid with nerves, that instead of eating, suck blood from other creatures. They use spiderlike engines to fight, and have the weapons to completely smother cities. The rest of the story tells about how the humans were powerless against the Martians, and how the Martians are able to take over whatever they want. In 1901 Wells wrote The First Men On The Moon. This was nothing like The War Of The Worlds, even though they both dealt with space. He used vivid descriptions of lunar scenery, and he was quite close to what it looked like, as people saw in 1960 when pictures were sent back by American ...
