![]() ![]() Brian Aldiss referred to Wells as the “Shakespeare of science fiction”, while Victorian scholar Charles Fort referred to him as a “wild talent”. His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering. A futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web. ![]() Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the “father of science fiction”, along with Jules Verne and the publisher Hugo Gernsback.ĭuring his own lifetime, however, he was most prominent as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. ![]() His work also included two books on recreational war games. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. Herbert George Wells (1866 – 1946) was an English writer. ![]()
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