• In 1927, a Canadian teacher and writer Florence Deeks unsuccessfully sued Wells for infringement of copyright and breach of trust, claiming that much of The...
  • A post-apocalyptic novella, The Time Machine is a coinage and invention of H. G. Wells himself, denoting a vehicle/contraption that is able to selectively move...
  • Best Known For: H.G. Wells was a writer of science-fiction works, including ‘The Time Machine’ and ‘War of the Worlds,’ who had a great influence on our vision...
  • H.G. Wells was an optimist of a type characteristic of his generation, which was breaking free from Victorian norms.
  • At his mother’s workplace, the owner had a library and it was a major attraction for Wells, who was an avid reader and had a chance to read many books from it.
  • His first novel, The Time Machine was an instant success and Wells produced a series of science fiction novels which pioneered our ideas of the future.
  • So this was H. G. Wells, this dumpy little man with the squeaky voice, totally indifferent to the problems that concerned the great mass of ordinary people."
  • H. G. Wells married his cousin Isabel Mary Wells in 1891, but they separated in 1894 after he fell in love with his student Amy Catherine Robbins, also known as Jane.
  • Sometimes referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction," Herbert George "H. G." Wells (1866 – 1946) was an English novelist, teacher, historian and journalist.
  • At the age of 7, after Wells suffered an accident that left him bedridden, he became a voracious reader of everything from Charles Dickens to Washington Irving.