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HERBERT GEORGE WELLS

Herbert George Wells (Bromley; September 21, 1866-London,

August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was a British writer

and novelist. Wells was a prolific author who wrote in various
genres, science fiction, dozens of novels, short stories, social

critics, satires, biographies, and autobiographies. He is
remembered for his science fiction novels and is frequently cited
as the "father of science fiction" along with Jules Verne and Hugo
Gernsback.

However, during his lifetime he was recognized as a forward-
thinking, even prophetic, social critic who devoted his literary

talents to developing a progressive vision on a global scale. In his
role as a futurist, he wrote various utopian works and foresaw the
advent of airplanes, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons,

satellite television and something similar to the internet. In
science fiction he imagined time travel, alien invasions,
invisibility, and biological engineering. Among his most

outstanding works are The Time Machine (1895), The Island of
Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the
Worlds (1898) and The War in the Air (1907). He was nominated

four times for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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H. G. Wells's works are influenced by his deep convictions. In The
Time Machine (1895) he addressed the subject of the class
struggle; in The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) and in The

Invisible Man (1897), the ethical limits of science and the
obligation of the scientist to act ethically beyond the power that
his discoveries grant him; in The War of the Worlds (1898), a
critique of the customs and practices of the Victorian era and

British imperialist practices. This in regards to his early novels,
which have made him one of the greatest science fiction writers.
Beginning in 1900, he began writing novels that described the
lives of humble people, including Ana Verónica (1909), which

addresses the issue of the liberation of women.

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