Two novels by the English science fiction writer H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds, which were first published almost simultaneously, in 1897, became a kind of hallmark of the author and a classic of 'warning literature'. The story of Griffin - a brilliant scientist who carried out an amazing experiment that forever separated him from ordinary people with an impenetrable wall of invisibility and turned him into a madman dangerous to society - and an equally incredible story about the Martian invasion that threatens the existence of mankind, and today, after a hundred plus years after the first publication, they amaze with a combination of psychological and everyday authenticity with the fantastic nature of the events described.