Herbert George Wells

Herbert George Wells (1866–1946) was a prolific English novelist, historian and journalist of the twentieth century. He is best known as the ‘father of science fiction’, having authored genre-defining works, such as The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897) and The First Men in the Moon (1901), among others. Wells’s science fiction foresaw several modern technologies, including space travel, nuclear weapons and the internet. In a testament to the diversity of his writing, Wells authored several comic novels and short stories, mostly centred on the lives of the English lower middle class, notably, Love and Mr. Lewisham (1900), Tono-Bungay (1909) and The History of Mr. Polly (1910). A true public intellectual, Wells also wrote several non-fiction works and journalistic pieces on sociopolitical issues of the Edwardian times.