father of science fiction and it is for these books that he is 
remembered. Best known are The Time Machine (1895), The 
Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898) and The First 
Men in the Moon (1901). In all these works he shows a remarkable 
imagination. He seemed to have the ability to make intelligent 
guesses about future scientific developments; he described travel 
underwater and by air, for example, at a time when such journeys 
seemed to be pure ficti