id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1683 H. G. Wells - Wikipedia .html text/html 15881 1883 76 Some of his early novels, called "scientific romances", invented several themes now classic in science fiction in such works as The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, When the Sleeper Wakes, and The First Men in the Moon. An enthusiast of random and irresponsible violence, Griffin has become an iconic character in horror fiction.[57] The Island of Doctor Moreau sees a shipwrecked man left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection.[58] The earliest depiction of uplift, the novel deals with a number of philosophical themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, and human interference with nature.[59] In The First Men in the Moon Wells used the idea of radio communication between astronomical objects, a plot point inspired by Nikola Tesla's claim that he had received radio signals from Mars.[60] Though Tono-Bungay is not a science-fiction novel, radioactive decay plays a small but consequential role in it. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1683.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1683.txt