2014, ISBN: 2940012521453

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946)[1] was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many … More...

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946)[1] was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books. Together with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback, Wells has been referred to as The Father of Science Fiction.[2]Wells was an outspoken socialist and sympathetic to pacifist views, although he supported the First World War once it was under way, and his later works became increasingly political and didactic. His middle-period novels (1900–1920) were less science-fictional; they covered lower-middle class life (The History of Mr Polly) and the New Woman and the Suffragettes (Ann Veronica).Wells's first non-fiction bestseller was Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought (1901).[15] When originally serialised in a magazine it was subtitled, An Experiment in Prophecy, and is considered his most explicitly futuristic work. Anticipating what the world would be like in the year 2000, the book is interesting both for its hits (trains and cars resulting in the dispersion of population from cities to suburbs; moral restrictions declining as men and women seek greater sexual freedom; the defeat of German militarism, and the existence of a European Union) and its misses (he did not expect successful aircraft before 1950, and averred that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocate its crew and founder at sea). Statue of a The War of the Worlds tripod, erected as a tribute to H. G. Wells in the centre of the town of Woking, EnglandHis early novels, called scientific romances, invented a number of themes now classic in science fiction in such works as The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, When the Sleeper Wakes, and The First Men in the Moon. He also wrote other, non-fantastic novels that have received critical acclaim including Kipps and the satire on Edwardian advertising, Tono-Bungay.Wells wrote several dozen short stories and novellas, the best known of which is The Country of the Blind (1904). His short story The New Accelerator was the inspiration for the Star Trek episode Wink of an Eye.[16]Though Tono-Bungay was not a science-fiction novel, radioactive decay plays a small but consequential role in it. Radioactive decay plays a much larger role in The World Set Free (1914). This book contains what is surely his biggest prophetic hit. Scientists of the day were well aware that the natural decay of radium releases energy at a slow rate over thousands of years. The rate of release is too slow to have practical utility, but the total amount released is huge. Wells's novel revolves around an (unspecified) invention that accelerates the process of radioactive decay, producing bombs that explode with no more than the force of ordinary high explosive—but which continue to explode for days on end. Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the earlier twentieth century, he wrote, than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible... [but] they did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands. Leó Szilárd acknowledged that the book inspired him to theorise the nuclear chain reaction.[17]Wells also wrote nonfiction. His bestselling three-volume work, The Outline of History (1920), began a new era of popularised world history. It received a mixed critical response from professional historians.[18] Many other authors followed with 'Outlines' of their own in other subjects. Wells reprised his Outline in 1922 with a much shorter popular work...summary by wikipedia.org Digital Content>E-books>Sf,Fantasy>Science Fiction>Science Fiction, Nook Ebook Digital >16<

2014, ISBN: 2940012521453

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946)[1] was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many … More...

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946)[1] was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books. Together with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback, Wells has been referred to as The Father of Science Fiction.[2]Wells was an outspoken socialist and sympathetic to pacifist views, although he supported the First World War once it was under way, and his later works became increasingly political and didactic. His middle-period novels (1900–1920) were less science-fictional; they covered lower-middle class life (The History of Mr Polly) and the New Woman and the Suffragettes (Ann Veronica).Wells's first non-fiction bestseller was Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought (1901).[15] When originally serialised in a magazine it was subtitled, An Experiment in Prophecy, and is considered his most explicitly futuristic work. Anticipating what the world would be like in the year 2000, the book is interesting both for its hits (trains and cars resulting in the dispersion of population from cities to suburbs; moral restrictions declining as men and women seek greater sexual freedom; the defeat of German militarism, and the existence of a European Union) and its misses (he did not expect successful aircraft before 1950, and averred that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocate its crew and founder at sea). Statue of a The War of the Worlds tripod, erected as a tribute to H. G. Wells in the centre of the town of Woking, EnglandHis early novels, called scientific romances, invented a number of themes now classic in science fiction in such works as The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, When the Sleeper Wakes, and The First Men in the Moon. He also wrote other, non-fantastic novels that have received critical acclaim including Kipps and the satire on Edwardian advertising, Tono-Bungay.Wells wrote several dozen short stories and novellas, the best known of which is The Country of the Blind (1904). His short story The New Accelerator was the inspiration for the Star Trek episode Wink of an Eye.[16]Though Tono-Bungay was not a science-fiction novel, radioactive decay plays a small but consequential role in it. Radioactive decay plays a much larger role in The World Set Free (1914). This book contains what is surely his biggest prophetic hit. Scientists of the day were well aware that the natural decay of radium releases energy at a slow rate over thousands of years. The rate of release is too slow to have practical utility, but the total amount released is huge. Wells's novel revolves around an (unspecified) invention that accelerates the process of radioactive decay, producing bombs that explode with no more than the force of ordinary high explosive—but which continue to explode for days on end. Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the earlier twentieth century, he wrote, than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible... [but] they did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands. Leó Szilárd acknowledged that the book inspired him to theorise the nuclear chain reaction.[17]Wells also wrote nonfiction. His bestselling three-volume work, The Outline of History (1920), began a new era of popularised world history. It received a mixed critical response from professional historians.[18] Many other authors followed with 'Outlines' of their own in other subjects. Wells reprised his Outline in 1922 with a much shorter popular work...summary by wikipedia.org Digital Content>E-books>SF&Fantasy>Sci-Fi>Sci-Fi, Nook Ebook Digital >16<

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