He was born in the year dynamite was invented (1866) and died a
year after the first explosion of the atomic bomb (1946). Herbert
George (H. G.) Wells was a man whose life dominated the century and
whose ideas both predicted and shaped the future. One of the most
influential men of his time, a leading science-fiction writer,
novelist, philosopher, reformer and fighter for civilization, Wells
exercised his imagination and expounded his revolutionary ideas in
over one hundred books in the course of his long life. As a young
man Wells struggled against repeated failure as a draper s
assistant, science student and teacher before finding his vocation
as a writer. He wrote the pioneering and immediately popular novel
The Time Machine. In this and other classic science fiction such as
The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds, Wells combined serious
and often remarkably accurate speculation about the future with
high adventure. But Wells was not content just to write fiction. He
was also an advocate for change in social customs and a man deeply
concerned with the future of humanity. A firm believer that the
twentieth century would be the turning point for civilization,
Wells anticipated many of the changes in his writings on space
travel, politics, marriage and the technologies of war. This is a
dramatic account of Well s life and his fight for causes and
concerns that are still relevant today."
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