G. Wells—Macmillan ($2.50). No matter how he troubles the waters, no matter how deeply lucid he may leave them, at the bottom of every book its author may be found. Herbert George Wells cannot ...

In this genre it’s easiest to trace the “what’s next?” questions. Setting aside all the imagined apocalypses, a powerful, ...

In the introduction of his new book, “Everything Must Go ... The 19th-century “grandmaster” of science fiction, of course, was H.G. Wells, a graduate of London’s Normal School of Science ...

Don’t ask people what they’re doing next” is one of the odd, small bits of wisdom I’ve picked up from doing this. Don’t ask students what their post-graduate plans are, don’t ask newlyweds if they ...

Any stories we tell about the end of the world will have to be fictional, since once the real thing occurs, no one will be ...

Steven Spielberg’s 2005 film adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel War of the Worlds starred ... the film the most popular adaptation of the book, proving Cruise’s prowess as a figurehead of ...

The flame war over A Complete Unknown burns like a fire on Main Street, with Dylan die-hards railing against its liberties, ...

The movie was perceived as falling prey to generic thrills and sentimental urges while maintaining the ending of the original H.G. Wells novel inspired divisive responses. Today, that perception ...

I know it’s naive to demand originality from the fourth installment in a movie series, but after a brief dormant period from ...

The world's largest invertebrate remained hidden from humanity until a tantalising glimpse 100 years ago. But it would be ...

They’d all be dust anyway. Forget about H.G. Wells and Cranky Charlton, modern cryogenics began with American war veteran and academic Robert Ettinger and his book The Prospect of Immortality ...