New Republic

H.G. Wells, the Rational Escapist

This outlook had no abler, nor more prominent, exponent than H.G. Wells, whose curiosity, unpretentious background, training as a science teacher, and rapid literary production made him famous in the ...
Wall Street Journal

‘The Young H.G. Wells’ Review: The Original Futurist

Does anyone read H.G. Wells anymore? The question has been asked periodically since his death in 1946, and the answer is invariably a qualified yes. Of Wells’s more than 100 books, his best known ...
Los Angeles Times

H.G. Wells’ alien-invasion novel is night-before-Halloween scary. But it’s a lot more too

The invasion began 125 years ago, got reinforcements on the night before Halloween in 1938 and still occupies cultural territory in the 21st century. In 1898, H.G. Wells published “The War of the ...
The New York Times

How H.G. Wells Predicted the 20th Century

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Charles Johnson THE YOUNG H. G. WELLS Changing the World By Claire Tomalin Toward the end of ...
RealClearScience

H.G. Wells vs. George Orwell: A Scientific Debate for the Ages

In the midst of contemporary science’s stunning discoveries and innovations – for example, 2017 alone brought the editing of a human embryo’s genes, the location of an eighth continent under the ocean ...
Time

Foreign News: Here Lies H. G. Wells

Author H. G. Wells, who has spent most of his 76 years alternately digging up past history and building imaginary future Utopias, last week took a long and jaundiced look into his own future. As ...
The Washington Post

Even in the 21st century, H.G. Wells still speaks to our fears and dreams

During the first half of his writing career, H.G. Wells (1866-1946) imagined a machine that would travel through time, the fearsome tripods of Martian invaders, a moon rocket powered by Cavorite, the ...
Ars Technica

H.G. Wells’ “World Brain” is now here—what have we learned since?

Between November 1936 and November 1937, H.G. Wells gave a series of lectures in Great Britain, France, and the US about the world’s impending problems and how to solve them. The lectures were first ...
Parade on MSN

Discover the dark horror plot that almost defined HG Wells's 'The Time Machine'

The original story was going to involve a serial killer escaping an angry mob.
Ars Technica

BBC drops first trailer for new adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds

The BBC dropped the first trailer for its upcoming adaptation of the classic H.G. Wells science fiction novel The War of the Worlds. The three-part miniseries is set in Edwardian England—just a few ...
The Washington Post

H.G. Wells wanted to change the world. A new book explores the author’s outsize ambitions

Claire Tomalin’s latest biography, “The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World,” is plainly written, packed with incident and justly admiring without being uncritical. In comparison with, say, the ...
Moviefone

H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds (2005)

In this modern retelling of H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi horror, civilization is laid to ruin when a super race of aliens invades Earth. In a blink of an eye, massive "walkers" cover the planet, ...