H. G. Wells
| birth_place = Bromley, Kent, England | death_date = | death_place = London, England | occupation = | alma_mater = Royal College of Science | years_active = 1895–1946 | genre = Science fiction (notably social science fiction) | movement = Social realism | subject = | spouse = * }} | children = 4, including G. P. and Anthony | relatives = * Simon Wells (great-grandson) }} | signature = H.G. Wells signature at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.svg | notableworks = | module = }} }} Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography. Wells' science fiction novels are so well regarded that he has been called the "father of science fiction".In addition to his fame as a writer, he was prominent in his lifetime as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. As a futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web. His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility and biological engineering before these subjects were common in the genre. Brian Aldiss referred to Wells as the "Shakespeare of science fiction", while Charles Fort called him a "wild talent".
Wells rendered his works convincing by instilling commonplace detail alongside a single extraordinary assumption per workdubbed "Wells's law"leading Joseph Conrad to hail him in 1898 with "O Realist of the Fantastic!". His most notable science fiction works include ''The Time Machine'' (1895), which was his first novel, ''The Island of Doctor Moreau'' (1896), ''The Invisible Man'' (1897), ''The War of the Worlds'' (1898), the military science fiction ''The War in the Air'' (1907), and the dystopian ''When the Sleeper Wakes'' (1910). Novels of social realism such as ''Kipps'' (1905) and ''The History of Mr Polly'' (1910), which describe lower-middle-class English life, led to the suggestion that he was a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in ''Tono-Bungay'' (1909), a diagnosis of English society as a whole. Wells was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.
Wells's earliest specialised training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a Darwinian context. He was also an outspoken socialist from a young age, often (but not always, as at the beginning of the First World War) sympathising with pacifist views. In his later years, he wrote less fiction and more works expounding his political and social views, sometimes giving his profession as that of journalist. Wells was a diabetic and co-founded the charity The Diabetic Association (Diabetes UK) in 1934. Provided by Wikipedia
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El futuro es nuestro / by Wells, H.G
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A propósito de Dolores / by Wells, H.G
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Breve historia del mundo : con doce mapas / by Wells, H. G.
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El fantasma sin experiencia / by Wells, H. G.
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La isla del doctor moreau / by Wells, H. G.
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El nuevo orden del mundo / by Wells, H. G. (Hebert George), 1866-1946
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The time machine and The man who could work miracles / by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
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La máquina del tiempo / by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
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The war of the worlds / by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
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Tono-Bungay / by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
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The history of Mr. Polly / by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
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The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind / by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
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The shape of things to come : the ultimate revolution / by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
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Hombres como dioses novela / by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
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El salvamento de la civilización / by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
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En nuevo orden del mundo / by Wells, H. G. 1866-1946. (Herbert George)
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Fénix : bases para una reorganización del mundo / by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
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Del pasado y del futuro : una crítica mordaz a la mediocridad imperante de 1901 a 1951 / by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
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¿Quiebra de la democracia? / by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
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In defence of civilization against fascist barbarism : statements, letters and telegrams from prominent people. by Sholokov, M., 1905-1984, Tolstoy, Aleksey Nikolayevich, 1883-1945, Korneĭchuk, Aleksandr Evdokimovich, Komarov, Vladimir Leontʹevič, 1869-1945, Marshak, S. , 1887-1964, Bach, Aleksei Nikolaevich, 1857-1946, Kapitza, Pjotr Leonidovich, 1894-1984, Shmidt, Otto I︠U︡lʹevich, 1891-1956, Frumkin, Aleksandr Naumovič, 1895-1976, Lysenko, Trofim Denisovič, 1898-1976, Keller, Boris Aleksandrovič, 1874-1945, Burdenko, Nikolaj Nilovič, 1876-1946, Vinogradov, Ivan Matveevič, 1891-1983, Orbeli, Leon Abgarovich, 1882-1958, Bardin, Ivan Pavlovič, 1883-1960, Kirpichev, M. V. , 1879-1955, Tarle, E. V. , 1874-1955, Stern, Lina Salomonowna, 1878-1968, Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975, Myaskovsky, Nikolay Yakovievich, 1881-1950, Prokofieff , Serge, 1891-1953, Glière, Reinhold Morit︠s︡evich, 1875-1956, Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir I. , 1858-1943, Knipper-Chekhova, Olʹga Leonardovna, 1868-1959, Kachalov, Vasiliĭ Ivanovich, 1875-1948, Barsova, Valeria, 1892-1967, Eizenshtéin, Serguéi Mijáilovich, 1898-1948, Romm, Mihail Ilʹič, 1901-1971, Papanin, Ivan Dmitrievich, 1894-1986, Krenkelʹ, Ėrnst, 1903-1971, Slepnev, M., Polikarpov, Nikolaj Nikolajevič, 1892-1944, Stakhanov, Alekseĭ, 1905-1977, Iofan, Boris Mikhaĭlovich, 1891-1976 , Mukhina, Vera Ignatʹevna, 1889-1953, Gerasimov, A., Dreiser, Théodore, 1871-1945, Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943, Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968, Haldane, J.B.S. , 1892-1964, Wells, H.G. , 1866-1946, Stefánsson, Vilhjálmur, 1879-1962, Feuchtwanger, Lion, 1884-1958, Pritt, D. N. , 1887-1972, Mann, Heinrich, 1871-1950, Romains, Jules, 1885-1972, Dirac, P. A. M. , 1902-1984, Williams, Albert Rhys, 1883-1962, Johnson, Hewlett, 1874-1966
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