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H G Wells

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                  H. G. Wells

 


 

 

What we know as science fiction has made ​​great strides in recent times include HG Wells is the father of this.   It is the greatness of the man to rest, replace heavy work for just configure machines to do these jobs. 

This results in the appearance maquinismotambien effects. It is the meeting to a different world a step forward, the progression as a human being, country, world. Intelligence is a fact, a reality of what is projected into the future. This emerged to late nineteenth century.

 

Herbert George Wells, better known as H. G. Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, UK the 21 September of 1866 an

d died the 13 August of 1946 in London, UK. He was a writer, novelist, historian, and british philosopher.

 

Famous for his science fiction novels and is considered between Julio Verne one of the precursors of this gender. For his writings relacionated with science, in 1970 was decided in his honor to call a lunar astroblema H. G. Wells, placed on the dark side of the Moon.

 

All his work is influenced by his deep convictions. In “The time machine” deals the theme of the war of classes; in “Doctor Moreau’s Island” and “The Invisible man”, the ethic limits of the science and the obligation of the scientist to act in an ethic way more than the power given by their discoveries.

 

Since 1900 started to write novels that described the life of the common people, like Ana Verónica, in which deals with the theme of women´s liberation.

Two of his most famous works are “The time machine” and “War of worlds”.

 

 

CONTENTS

 

  1. BIOGRAPHY 
  2. WORKS                         
  3. LIST OF ALL HIS WORKS 
  4. AWARDS 
  5. PHRASES

 
 
 
 

BIOGRAPHY

Was born in Atlas House, High Street n° 47, Bromley, Kent, UK the September 21 of 1866, as the third child of Joseph Wells and her wife Sarah Neal. The family, of the poor class middle-low of the time, calls her Bertie. They had a nothing prosperous shop purchased thanks a heritage, in which they sold deportive products and fine crockery.

 

At 1874 the young Herbert George Wels lived a fact that would have a significant impact on her future: Suffers an accident that left him on Commercial Academy. bed with a broken leg. To kill time, he began to read books from the local library that his father carried to him. He became interested to lecture and began to wish to write. That year he entered in a commercial academy called Thomas Morley’s

At 1883 he enrolled in the Grammatical Midhurst school of Occidental Sussex like tutor and student, where he continued his hunger for reading.

 

At 1884 obtained a scholarship to study Biology at Royal College of Science of London, where he studied with Thomas Henry Huxley as teacher. He studied here until 1887. Wells remembering that time speaks of having suffered constantly hungry

 

In that period he became part of the founders of The Science School Journal, a magazine in which made known his postulates in literature and social issues. Was in it that he saw the light for the first time of his novel The Time Machine, but with the original title: The Chronic Argonaut

 

He was one of the founders of the Royal College of Science Association, being his first president in 1909.

 

His relationship with Rebecca West, which lasted ten years and gave a child, Anthony West, born in 1914.

 

At contracting tuberculosis he abandoned all to dedicate himself to write, getting to write about one hundred works. He is considered one of the Science Fiction precursors and his first works were focused in scientific fantasy, prophetic descriptions of the triumphs of technology and comments about the century XX wars: The Time Machine, his first novel, of immediate success, in which link science, adventure and politics; The Invisible Man; The War of the Worlds and The First Men in the Moon. Giving origin to many movies.

 

At the end of his life, he dedicated his work “42 to 44” to criticism for many political leaders of the moment. For other side, in Homo sapiens’ Destiny he expressed the doubts about the survival of the human race. He wrote also Experiment in Autobiography before his dead the August 13 of 1946, in London.

 

 

WORKS

Top 7 works 


 

  1. The Time Machine:The First Work, this novel is the most important work of science and fiction literature of all time, is about focusing on a man builds a time machine and he travels to the future, where he see that there the humans are divided in two subraces. 

  2.   The War of the Worlds: This work is about the world how is to has  invaded for the different people

  3.  The First Men in the Moon: This novel relates a travel realized  by a human on the moon and he finds the aliens civilization.

  4. The Invisible Man: The story of a scientist who conducts an experiment to see if you can be invisible and analyze their psychological consequences but realizes he can not return the experiment.

    5. The Island of Doctor Moreau: This is the story of a shipwreck that reaches an island where he meets a scientist doing experiments on animals, and the novel are present dilemmas about the creation of man and existence.

  5. 6. The Man Who Could Work Miracles: The story is about three gods who decide to give a human power, mainly by creating consequences and after showing them the risk of power

  6. In the Days of the Comet: Explain the problem that happens mankind from corruption, abuse and without the rights cumplar to change things. But the arrival of gas a comet produces a change in people and in their attitudes

 

 

 

 

LIST OF ALL HIS WORKS

 

 

  • The Chronic Argonauts (1888)

 

  • Textbook of Biology (1893) 

 

  • Honours Physiography (1893)

 

  • Select Conversations with an Uncle  (1895)

 

  • The Time Machine: An Invention (1895)

 

  • The Wonderful Visit (1895)

 

  • The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents (1895)

 

  • The Argonauts of the Air (1895)

 

  • Under the Knife (1896)

 

  • In the Abyss (1896)

 

  • The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)

 

  • The Red Room (1896)

 

  • The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll (1896)

 

  • The Sea Raiders (1896)

 

  • The Crystal Egg (1897)

 

  • The Star (1897)

 

  • A Story of the Stone Age (1897)

 

  • The Plattner Story, and Others (1897)

 

  • The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance (1897)

 

  • Certain Personal Matters: A Collection of Material, Mainly Autobiographical (1898)

 

  • The War of the Worlds (1898)

 

  • The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1898)

 

  • When the Sleeper Wakes (1899)

 

  • Tales of Space and Time (1899)

 

  • A Story of the Days To Come (1899)

 

  • Love and Mr Lewisham: The Story of a Very Young Couple (1900)

 

  • The First Men in the Moon (1901)

 

  • Filmer (1901)

 

  • The New Accelerator (1901)

 

  • Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought (1902)

 

  • The Discovery of the Future (1902)

 

  • The Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine (1902)

 

  • Mankind in the Making (1903)

 

  • The Magic Shop (1903)

 

  • Twelve Stories and a Dream (1903)

 

  • The Truth About Pyecraft (1903)

 

  • The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904)

 

  • The Land Ironclads (1904)

 

  • Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul (1905)
  • A Modern Utopia (1905)

 

  • The Empire of the Ants (1905)

 

  • In the Days of the Comet (1906)

 

  • The Future in America: A Search After Realities (1906)

 

  • Faults of the Fabian (1906)

 

  • Socialism and the Family (1906)

 

  • Reconstruction of the Fabian Society (1906)
  • This Misery of Boots (1907)

 

  • Will Socialism Destroy the Home? (1907)
  • New Worlds for Old (1908)

 

  • The War in the Air (1908)

 

  • First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life (1908)

 

  • The Valley of Spiders (1909)

 

  • Ann Veronica (1909)

 

  • Tono-Bungay (1909)

 

  • The History of Mr. Polly (1910)

 

  • The Sleeper Awakes (1910)

 

  • The Late Mr Elvesham (1911)

 

  • The New Machiavelli (1911)

 

  • The Country of the Blind and Other Stories (1911)

 

  • The Door in the Wall and Other Stories (1911)

 

  • Floor Games (1911)

 

  • The Great State: Essays in Construction (1912)

 

  • The Labour Unrest (1912)

 

  • Marriage (1912)

 

  • War and Common Sense (1913)

 

  • Liberalism and Its Party: What Are the Liberals to Do? (1913)

 

  • Little Wars: A Game for Boys from Twelve Years of Age to One Hundred and Fifty and for that More Intelligent Sort of Girls who Like Boys' Games and Books (1913)

 

  • The Passionate Friends: A Novel (1913)

 

  • An Englishman Looks at the World: Being A Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters (1914)

 

  • The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind (1914)

 

  • The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914)

 

  • The War That Will End War (1914)

 

  • The Peace of the World (1915)

 

  • Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump: Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times (1915)

 

  • Bealby: A Holiday (1915)

 

  • Tidstänkar (1915)

 

  • The Research Magnificent (1915)

 

  • What is Coming? A Forecast of Things After the War (1916)

 

  • Mr. Britling Sees It Through (1916)

 

 

  • The Elements of Reconstruction: A Series of Articles Contributed in July and August 1916 to The Times (1916)

 

  • God the Invisible King (1917)

 

  • War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War (1917)

 

  • The Soul of a Bishop (1917)

 

  • A Reasonable Man's Peace (1917)

 

  • Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education (1918)

 

  • In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace (1918)

 

  • The Undying Fire: A Contemporary Novel (1919)

 

  • The Idea of a League of Nations (1919)

 

  • The Way to a League of Nations (1919)

 

  • History is One (1919)

 

  • Russia in the Shadows (1920)

 

  • The Salvaging of Civilization (1921)

 

  • The New Teaching of History. With a Reply to Some Criticisms of 'The Outline of History'(1921)

 

  • Washington and the Hope of Peace (1922)

 

  • What H.G. Wells Thinks about ‘The Mind in the Making’ (1922)

 

  • University of London Election: An Electoral Letter (1922)

 

  • The World, its Debts and the Rich Men (1922)

 

 
  • The Secret Places of the Heart (1922)

 

  • Men Like Gods: A Novel (1923)

 

  • Socialism and the Scientific Motive (1923)

 

  • To the Electors of London University, University General Election, 1923, from H.G. Wells, B.Sc., London (1923)

 

  • The Labour Ideal of Education (1923)

 

  • A Walk Along the Thames Embankment (1923)

 

  • The Story of a Great School Master (1924)

 

  • The Dream: A Novel (1924)

 

 

  • The P.R. Parliament (1924)

 

  • A Year of Prophesying (1924)

 

  • Christina Alberta's Father (1925)

 

  • A Forecast of the World’s Affairs (1925)

 

  • The World of William Clissold: A Novel at a New Angle (1926)

 

  • Mr. Belloc Objects to the 'Outline of History' (1926)

 

  • Democracy Under Revision (1927)

 

  • Playing at Peace (1927)

 

  • Meanwhile: The Picture of a Lady (1927)

 

  • The Stolen Body (1927)

 

  • A Dream of Armageddon (1927)

 

  • The Short Stories of H. G. Wells (1927) 

 

  • The Way the World is Going: Guesses & Forecasts of the Years Ahead (1928)

 

  • The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution (1928)

 

  • Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island (1928)

 

  • The Book of Catherine Wells (1928) 

 

 

  • The King Who Was A King: The Book of a Film (1929)

 

  • Common Sense of World Peace (1929)

 

  • The Adventures of Tommy (1929)

 

  • Imperialism and The Open Conspiracy (1929)

 

  • The Autocracy of Mr. Parham: His Remarkable Adventures in this Changing World (1930)

 

  • The Science of Life: A Summary of Contemporary Knowledge about Life and its Possibilities  (1930) 

 

  • The Way to World Peace (1930)

 

  • The Problem of the Troublesome Collaborator: An Account of Certain Difficulties in an Attempt to Produce a Work in Collaboration and of the Intervention of the Society of Authors Therein (1930)

 

  • Settlement of the Trouble between Mr. Thring and Mr. Wells: A Footnote to the Problem of the Troublesome Collaborator (1930)

 

 

  • What Are We To Do With Our Lives?  (1931)

 

  • The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1932)

 

  • After Democracy: Addresses and Papers on the Present World Situation (1932)

 

  • The Bulpington of Blup: Adventures, Poses, Stresses, Conflicts, and Disaster in a Contemporary Brain (1932)

 

  • What Should be Done Now? (1932)

 

  • The Shape of Things to Come: The Ultimate Revolution (1933)

 

  • Experiment in Autobiography: Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (since 1866) (1934) 

 

  • Stalin-Wells Talk: The Verbatim Record and a Discussion (1934)

 

  • The New America: The New World (1935)

 

  • Things to Come: A Film Story (1935)

 

  • The Anatomy of Frustration: A Modern Synthesis (1936)

 

  • The Croquet Player (1936)

 

  • The Idea of a World Encyclopaedia (1936)

 

  • The Man Who Could Work Miracles: A Film (1936)

 

  • Star Begotten: A Biological Fantasia (1937)

 

  • Brynhild, or the Show of Things (1937)

 

  • The Camford Visitation (1937)

 

  • The Informative Content of Education (1937)

 

  • The Brothers: A Story (1938)

 

  • World Brain (1938)

 

  • Apropos of Dolores (1938)

 

  • The Holy Terror (1939)

 

  • Travels of a Republican Radical in Search of Hot Water (1939)

 

  • The Fate of Homo Sapiens: An unemotional Statement of the Things that are happening to him now, and of the immediate Possibilities confronting him (1939)

 

  • The New World Order: Whether it is attainable, how it can be attained, and what soert of world a world at peace will have to be (1939)

 

  • The Rights of Man, Or What Are We Fighting For? (1940)

 

  • Babes in the Darkling Wood (1940)

 

  • The Common Sense of War and Peace: World Revolution of War Unending (1940)

 

  • All Aboard for Ararat (1940)

 

  • Guide to the New World: A Handbook of Constructive World Revolution (1941)

 

  • You Can't Be Too Careful (1941)

 

  • The Outlook for Homo Sapiens: An unemotional Statement of the Things that are happening to him now, and of the immediate Possibilities confrontinmg him (1942) 

 
  • The Conquest of Time (1942)

 

  • The New Rights of Man: Text of Letter to Wells from Soviet Writer, Who Pictures the Ordeal and Rescue of Humanistic Civilization - H. G. Wells' Reply and Program for Liberated Humanity (1942)

 

  • Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church (1943)

 

  • The Mosley Outrage (1943)

 

  • The Rights of Man: An Essay in Collective Definition (1943)

 

  • '42 to '44: A Contemporary Memoir upon Human Behaviour during the Crisis of the World Revolution (1944)
  • The Illusion of Personality (1944)

 

  • The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life (1945)

 

  • Mind at the End of Its Tether (1945)

 

  • The Desert Daisy (1957)

 

  • The Wealth of Mr Waddy (1969)

 

  • H. G. Wells in Love (1984)

 

  • The Betterave Papers and Aesop's Quinine for Delphi 
 

 

 

 

 

 

AWARDS

 

 

 

 

  • 1997: Included in the Science Fiction Hall of Fame 

  • 1998: Locus Poll, 17th best novel before 1990 by The Time Machine

  • 1998: Locus Poll, 28th best novel for pre-1990 by The War of the Worlds

  • 1999: Locus Poll, 2nd best short story of all time by The Time Machine

 

 

 

 

 

PHRASES

 

  • How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles

  

  • We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!
  • Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.

 

  •  We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

 

  •  Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough—as most wrong theories are!

 

  •  The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

 

  •  An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

  

  • He had developed in the most wonderful way the distinctive silliness of man without losing one jot of the natural folly of a monkey

 

  • Without the body the brain would, of course, become a mere selfish intelligence, without any of the emotional substratum of the human being.

 

  • Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me

 

  • One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good

 

  • Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

 

  • Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

 

  • We do not want dictators, we do not want oligarchic parties or class rule, we want a widespread world intelligence conscious of itself. To work out a way to that world brain organization is therefore our primary need in this age of imperative construction. 

 

 

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