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 ...
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 ...
Science fiction pioneer H.G. Wells conjured some futuristic visions that haven't (yet) come true: a machine that travels back in time, a man who turns invisible, and a Martian invasion that destroys ...
This new stage adaptation of War of the Worlds by Carrie J. Cole puts H.G. Wells’ original invasion of Earth by the Martians in the context of our current missions to explore Mars, and the human ...
CNN’s Love-Hate Relationship with Citizen Journalists in Minnesota Jeff Bezos Isn’t Obligated to Subsidize the Losses of the Washington Post The Reaper Visits the Washington Post Audio By Carbonatix ...
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 ...
NEW YORK — As Nazi Germany grew ever more dangerous in the 1930s and the Japanese threatened China, science fiction author H.G. Wells wrote up some thoughts about real-life horrors and in 1937 ...
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 ...
“Nobody predicted the 21st century better than H.G. Wells,” said Kathryn Hughes in the Daily Mail. Born “when Queen Victoria was still youngish”, he wrote a series of bestselling page-turners about ...
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 ...