H.G. Wells (1866–1946) wrote some of the great classics of speculative fiction in English, including The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), which might be said to be about unholy genetics. The work’s bio
The First Men in the Moon is the last in a series of “scientific romances” begun by Wells with The Time Machine. In the opinion of many, it is also the last in a series of pessimistic and anti-utopian
Much attention has been paid to the “scientific romance” novels of H.G. Wells, a founder of modern science fiction and one of the genre’s greatest writers. In comparison, little attention has been giv
The Time Machine is one of the most enduring works of the English language. A hundred years after it was first published, the book continues to be studied. The 1895 London first edition is used as a
H.G. Wells barely revised The Invisible Man once it was published, adding only an epilogue. But the opening statement of that epilogue—“So ends the strange and evil experiment of the Invisible Man”—ha
Wells’ novel, a “scientific romance,” attained perhaps its greatest fame in another form, the infamous realistic 1939 radio broadcast “Invasion from Mars” by the redoubtable Orson Welles. It was also
Critics view When the Sleeper Wakes as a prototype of the anti-utopian novel, a genre developed by Zamyatin, Huxley, and Orwell into nightmare futures associated with the totalitarian age and the mora
