
Nato: September 21, 1866 – Bromley, Kent, England
H.G. Wells was an English novelist, journalist, and social commentator whose work spanned science fiction, history, and political thought. Best known for The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, and The Invisible Man, he helped define modern science fiction, and his books have remained globally read and frequently adapted.
H.G. Wells, born Herbert George Wells in Bromley, Kent, in 1866, emerged from modest circumstances to become one of the defining writers of modern speculative fiction. His father worked intermittently as a shopkeeper and professional cricketer, and his mother was employed in domestic service. A childhood injury that kept him bedridden for long stretches turned him toward reading, and books quickly became a route out of economic insecurity. After difficult years as a draper’s apprentice and pupil-teacher, he won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in South Kensington, where he studied biology under T.H. Huxley. That scientific training proved decisive: it gave Wells both a method and a vocabulary for imagining the future, and it shaped the blend of narrative, social criticism, and evolutionary thinking that would define his career.

H.G. Wells
A Victorian inventor travels to a distant future, discovering a disturbing fate for humanity divided into two distinct species.

H.G. Wells
A gripping alien invasion tale exploring human resilience and vulnerability in the face of superior extraterrestrial technology.

H.G. Wells
A Victorian inventor travels to a distant future, discovering a disturbing fate for humanity divided into two distinct species.

H.G. Wells
A gripping alien invasion tale exploring human resilience and vulnerability in the face of superior extraterrestrial technology.
"H.G. Wells was a versatile author"
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"H.G. Wells was also a prophet of the sexual revolution of our own era"
— David Lodge ((
"H.G. Wells seemed to have the future figured out"
— Maya Jasanoff ((
"H.G. Wells was the most important of all nineteenth-century sf writers in the UK and in America as well"
— SF Encyclopedia ((
"Thinking people who were born about the beginning of this century are in some sense H.G. Wells's own creation"
— George Orwell ((
"H.G. Wells wrote several classic, visionary novels"
— Ali Smith ((
"At least H.G. Wells stood by his imaginary guns"
— Ursula K. Le Guin ((
"H.G. Wells had a gift that was perhaps even rarer than the gift of being a great novelist"
— Adam Kirsch ((
"H.G. Wells's books would last for ever"
— Jorge Luis Borges ((
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