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Opinion: H.G. Wells' alien-invasion novel is night-before-Halloween scary. But it's a lot more too

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 1953 Paramount movie version of H.G. Wells' alien-invasion novel moved the Martian action to Southern California. (Paramount ...
Wall Street Journal

‘The Young H.G. Wells’ Review: The Original Futurist

Does anyone read H.G. Wells anymore? The question has been asked periodically since his death in 1946, and the answer is invariably a qualified yes. Of Wells’s more than 100 books, his best known ...
The Spokesman-Review

H.G. Wells wanted to change the world – a new book explores the author’s outsize ambitions

Claire Tomalin’s latest biography, “The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World,” is plainly written, packed with incident and justly admiring without being uncritical. In comparison with, say, the ...
Post-Bulletin

Rare HG Wells writings published in magazine

NEW YORK — As Nazi Germany grew ever more dangerous in the 1930s and the Japanese threatened China, science fiction author H.G. Wells wrote up some thoughts about real-life horrors and in 1937 ...
BroadwayWorld

War of the Worlds after HG Wells at Temple of Music and Art

This new stage adaptation of War of the Worlds by Carrie J. Cole puts H.G. Wells’ original invasion of Earth by the Martians in the context of our current missions to explore Mars, and the human ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Many Futuristic Predictions of H.G. Wells That Came True

Science fiction pioneer H.G. Wells conjured some futuristic visions that haven't (yet) come true: a machine that travels back in time, a man who turns invisible, and a Martian invasion that destroys ...
The New York Times

How H.G. Wells Predicted the 20th Century

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Charles Johnson THE YOUNG H. G. WELLS Changing the World By Claire Tomalin Toward the end of ...
New Republic

H.G. Wells, the Rational Escapist

This outlook had no abler, nor more prominent, exponent than H.G. Wells, whose curiosity, unpretentious background, training as a science teacher, and rapid literary production made him famous in the ...
Time

Foreign News: Here Lies H. G. Wells

Author H. G. Wells, who has spent most of his 76 years alternately digging up past history and building imaginary future Utopias, last week took a long and jaundiced look into his own future. As ...
Game Rant

This Offbeat Time Travel Movie Has HG Wells Chasing Jack The Ripper To The 1970s

Ben Sherlock is a writer, comedian, and filmmaker. Before working at Screen Rant, Ben wrote for Game Rant, Taste of Cinema, Comic Book Resources, and BabbleTop. In his spare time, Ben creates video ...
Los Angeles Times

H.G. Wells’ alien-invasion novel is night-before-Halloween scary. But it’s a lot more too

The invasion began 125 years ago, got reinforcements on the night before Halloween in 1938 and still occupies cultural territory in the 21st century. In 1898, H.G. Wells published “The War of the ...