H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells was a British science fiction author who also penned essays, editorials, and scientific non-fiction works.

H.G. Wells credited hours spent reading as a bedridden child with a broken leg to his lifelong passion for reading and writing. His family's financial hardships may have led to Wells' criticisms of economic and governmental systems, and his socialist political stance. His writing, especially his fiction, was a vehicle for his opinions. This is evidenced in The Time Machine, he Island of Doctor Moreau, and Anticipations. Wells worked on the United Nations charter, was a firm believer in the desirable inevitability of a world state, and lacked confidence in democracy. In his lifetime and immediately after his death, Wells was more recognized as a prominent socialist thinker than a science fiction writer.

• The Outline of History
• The First Men in the Moon
• The Shape of Things to Come
• The War of the Worlds

• September 21, 1866: Born in Bromley, Kent, England

• 1890: Earns Bachelor of Science from University of London External Programme

• 1891: Marries his cousin Isabel

• 1895: Marries Amy Catherine Robbins, a former student

• 1922: Stands unsuccessfully for Parliament as Labor candidate

• 1929: First radio broadcast of War of the Worlds

• 1931: Diagnosed with diabetes

• August 13, 1946: Dies

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• 1919: The First Men in the Moon

• 1936: Things to Come

• 1953: The War of the Worlds

• 1965: Village of the Giants

• 1976: Gemini Man

• 1996: The Island of Dr. Moreau

• 2002: The Time Machine

• 2005: War of the Worlds

• 2007: The History of Mr. Polly