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 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 ...
The 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 ...
Ars Technica

H.G. Wells’ “World Brain” is now here—what have we learned since?

Between November 1936 and November 1937, H.G. Wells gave a series of lectures in Great Britain, France, and the US about the world’s impending problems and how to solve them. The lectures were first ...
Monsters and Critics

Time After Time recap: New twists regarding HG Wells

HG Wells tracks John Stevenson — aka Jack The Ripper — to New York of 2017 for a mind-bending time-travel adventure, which offers up some intriguing twists.
CNN

The UK’s new HG Wells coin features numerous errors – including a four-legged tripod

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Washington Post

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 ...
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 ...
The New York Times

Fans of H.G. Wells Cry Foul Over Errors in Commemorative Coin

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 See more of our coverage in your ...