h.g. wells

     

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer most famous toay for his science fiction novels The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon and The Island of Doctor Moreau. He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and produced works in many genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary. He was an outspoken socialist, his later works becoming increasingly political and didactic. Only his early science fiction novels are widely read today. Wells and Jules Verne are each sometimes referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction".

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  • This author of "The Time Machine" coined the phrase "the war that will end war"
  • In 1938 actor Orson presented this novelist's "The War of the Worlds" on radio
  • If his "Time Machine" took you back to the 1880s, you'd find him working as an apprentice draper
  • His sci-fi novel, "The Invisible Man" is sometimes subtitled "a fantastic sensation"
  • He wrote a "Textbook of Biology" 2 years before "The Time Machine"
  • This British author wrote "The War in the Air" as well as "The War of the Worlds"
  • 1895:"The Time Machine"
  • "The Time Machine" (1895)
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  • In 1914's "The World Set Free", he wrote of a war in 1958 involving atomic bombs
  • Nicodemus Frapp is a narrow-minded evangelist in "Tono-Bungay", a 1909 novel by this author of "The Time Machine"
  • This turn of the century British sci-fi author's last words were "Go away...I'm all right"; he wasn't!
  • As this author, Malcolm McDowell chases Jack the Ripper across time in the 1979 thriller "Time After Time"
  • As a youth, this "War of the Worlds" author studied biology under the great scientist Thomas H. Huxley
  • From the early 1900s, his "The First Men in the Moon" & "The War in the Air" proved eerily prophetic
  • Lady Grove is an estate purchased by Uncle Edward in this "timely" British author's 1909 novel "Tono-Bungay"
  • 1921 & 1922: His "The Outline of History"

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