The greatest science fiction story of the 19th Century – and one of the greatest ever written – H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine first appeared as a serial in the London magazines and then as a ...

When H.G. Wells' The Time Machine first appeared in the U.S., it had a drastically different text than the British edition. Was this a hatchet job, or did ...

SEVEN FAMOUS NOVELS—H. G. Wells— Knopf ($2.75). Twenty-five years ago Herbert George Wells was a youngster of 42. His name stood for exuberant modernity, trailblazing science and a freely ...

When the machine returns Wells gives chase and follows Stevenson to the 21st century. The Time Machine in action. In the original film, which was directed by Nicholas Meyer and based on the book ...

Before his success with “The Time Machine,” he took work copying diagrams for slides ... Charles Johnson is the author of the novel “Middle Passage” and 25 other books. THE YOUNG H.G. WELLS ...

Wells was a prolific writer and tireless thinker, well demonstrated by his 1935 letter. He writes of a day that begins at 4 a.m.; includes revisions of a book about how “human hope and effort ...

While H.G. Wells (1866- 1946) remains best known today for what he called his "scientific romances," he was far more than just the author of "The Time Machine," "The Island of Dr. Moreau" and "The ...

Of Wells’s more than 100 books, his best known remain his groundbreaking early science fiction, including “The Time Machine” (1895) and “The War of the Worlds” (1898), which paved the ...