The Invisible Man (Wells)

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The Invisible Man (Wells)

Full title	The Invisible Man
Author	H. G. Wells
Published	1897
Recommended	Once
Buy	Amazon
Why it’s on the list	H. G. Wells’s researcher Griffin solves invisibility, discovers it is nearly useless — he cannot eat unseen, is heard, and is tracked in rain, snow and dust — and escalates to terror. A genuine scientific triumph whose only plausible application turns out to be crime; the book works because the trick never quite works.

The Invisible Man (Wells)

Where I heard about it

The a16z infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, in Sci-fi — Classics, A tier, under Wells’s selected works. Their summary of Wells is that he “reads like a grumpy Leonardo da Vinci”: rigorous, visionary, and “oddly anti-technology.”

Not to be confused with Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man, which is a different book entirely.

a16z Infra Reading List — where this is listed, in the classics tier.
H. G. Wells — the author.
The Time Machine — the Wells Kyle has read.
The War of the Worlds — the second Wells title on the list.
The Island of Doctor Moreau — the fourth.
Ethics — what a researcher does when the discovery is real and the use case is not.
Science Fiction — the genre.
Not to be confused with Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel, also in the anti-library.

Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.