Got this for myself after Christmas, almost done. I highly recommend it. Plus, it's dirt cheap.

Amazon.com: Books: Science Fiction Classics of H. G. Wells

This guy kicks serious Victorian scientific butt. I wish he was alive today, so he could see the amazing breakthroughs we have made in science and medicine. If course, he would be like 200 and something years old, and would have to take overnight bus trips to Canada to buy the prescription drugs he needed to stay alive.