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It's just that they were written over a hundred years ago, so the science seems weak nowadays. Note that Jules Verne, a man who loudly criticized Wells' scientific accuracy, wrote a story that accepted hollow earth theory.
Most modern science fiction doesn't spend the kind of time Lord Rabbit describes on explaining the technical details. There are stories that get into it more, and there's a term for that (isn't there always?), but I forget what it is.
If you want to see the difference between "science fiction" and what has been termed "science fantasy", compare Wells' _War of the Worlds_ and Burroughs' Martian series.
Of course, not all of Wells' work holds up the science part so well. In latter works he was more interested in social criticism than in the science part.
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