The 1953 Paramount movie version of H.G. Wells' alien-invasion novel moved the Martian action to Southern California. (Paramount Pictures/Getty Images) The invasion began 125 years ago, got ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An invading alien race bent on conquering humanity. The fear of the unknown. Intelligent insects, apocalyptic musings, time travel, mutant half-breeds, invisibility formulas, and mad scientists—such ...

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 submitted them to ...

A new British coin commemorating the pioneering science fiction author HG Wells has been criticized for featuring multiple errors – including the decision to give his famous “tripod” machine from “The ...

The controversial depiction of a War of the Worlds machine on a Royal Mint design was actually an artistic choice. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET.

The two-pound coin from the Royal Mint features imagery from Wells’s books. But fans noted that the writer’s Martian tripods have three legs, not four. By Johnny Diaz The idea was to create a ...

A new British coin commemorating the pioneering science fiction author HG Wells has been criticized for featuring multiple errors — including the decision to give his famous “tripod” machine from “The ...