H. G. Wells
Один из самых известных и популярных романов английского писателя Герберта Уэллса. Динамичная по сюжету фантастическая история о молодом ученом, сумевшим претворить в жизнь давнюю мечту человека – стать невидимым. Получив такую способность, он попадает в жуткие и захватывающие ситуации, но чем закончится «курс» выживания человека-невидимки?

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The War of the Worlds
earth the force of gravity is three times what it is on the surface of Mars. A Martian, therefore, would weigh three times more than on Mars, albeit his muscular strength would be the same. His own body would be a cope of lead to him. That, indeed, was the general opinion. Both The Times and the Daily Telegraph, for instance, insisted on it the next morning, and both overlooked, just as I did, two obvious modifying influences. The atmosphere of the earth, we now know, contains far more oxygen or far less argon (whichever way one likes to put it) than does Mars. The invigorating influences of this excess of oxygen upon the Martians indisputably did much to counterbalance the increased weight of their bodies. And, in the second place, we all overlooked the fact that such mechanical intelligence as the Martian possessed was quite able to dispense with muscular exertion at a pinch.
The First Men in the Moon