AN ISLAND CALLED MOREAU by Brian W. Aldiss New York: Simon and Schuster, (1981). First American edition, first printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover art by Allen Magee. The updated version of the H.G. Wells classic finds the main character, the only survivor of a spacecraft accident, taken to an isolated island populated with half-man half-beasts genetically engineered by the Master of the island. "During a disastrous world war, an eccentric scientist--supported by the United States government--carries out genetic experiments which lead to the creation of human-like beings bred from beasts and to a reshaping of the human race."---Fantastic Fiction. First published in 1980 in the UK as Moreau's Other Island. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!