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H.G. Wells Aim Aaron Archuleta

H.G. Wells is a critical component to the scientific realm, creating novels that predicted social, political, and economical outcomes of the human society. Through his life interests and experiences Wells began to question the actions of humans and consequences to those actions. Wells created science fiction novels that were ahead of their time and his novels sparked a higher level of thinking regarding human activity and where society was heading. “For a time he acquired a reputation as a prophet of the future, and indeed, in The War in the Air (1908), he foresaw certain developments in the military use of aircraft” (Nicholson). However, Wells set himself away from writing nonfiction novels and began publishing articles about the development of mankind. These articles reflected many of Wells’ earlier works but, after his experiences with war, Wells began predicting the outcome of societies involvement in war. “This collection of predictions has proved to be remarkably accurate. Wells forecased the rise of major cities and suburbs, economic globalization, and aspects of future military conflicts” (“H.G. Wells”). Through his experiences Wells understood the purpose of directly informing the public of these predictions, and no longer cared to make his work literary merits. This new structure of writing Wells began writing with changed the perspective of the messages he was conveying and reached out to a more diverse audience. These changes in Wells writing ignited many of his works, such as The World Set Free.

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Audience Nick Nickerson  H.G. Wells is one of the most well known science fiction writers in history and made numerous important contributions to the genre including War of the Worlds and The World Set Free. The primary audience of his work has been anyone who was interested the genre, which was very popular in the 20th Century. A lot of his work has been adapted into movies, television programs, and radio broadcasts. These include Invisible Man, War of the Worlds, and First Men on the Moon. The radio adaptation for War of the World’s was one of the most popular, controversial, and famous radio broadcasts ever. These adaptations bring H.G. Wells’ work to a broader audience and his work has affected nearly everyone in modern society.

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“Herbert George Wells - Biography”. European Graduate School, n.d. Web. 8 November 2013.

Historical Jasmine Garner



Herbert George Wells is the author of many influential novels, including The World Set Free. Born in 1866, he began his formal education only seven or eight years later at The Commercial Academy for Young Gentlemen in England, where his lifelong wariness of the working class was first instilled (“Herbert George Wells Biography”). Though the Academy taught him to be a clerk or shopkeeper, he soon found that his interests were more aimed towards science. At twenty-two, he moved to London and earned a degree in Zoology; soon after, he began writing articles and essays for local newspapers, which undoubtedly intensified his reputation within the science world; his notoriety flourished with the publication of his many controversial novels, and eventually he was deemed the “father of science fiction”, producing well over twenty science fiction novels as well as at least one hundred political, historical, nonfiction, etc. works of literature (“H.G. Wells”). A number of his novels revolved around nuclear warfare and the results of the First World War. Overall, his works created revelations about what could potentially occur in the future if the world continued on its then-current path of war and destruction through the means of technology.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">“H.G. Wells”. Famousauthors, 2013. Web. 6 November 2013.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">“Herbert George Wells - Biography”. European Graduate School, n.d. Web. 6 November 2013.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: center;">Cultural <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: center;">Jasmine Garner



<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">H.G. Wells’ impact on the world was quite notable; not only did he drive the growth of industry, he also condoned Darwin’s discovery that the succession of species was due to natural rather than religious causes (Siegel). In tying these two concepts together, he promoted the idea that there were individuals in the world who could use Darwinism and expand it to mean something more. His works represented the notion of intelligent and ambitious individuals driving Darwinism to apply to adaptation for a higher-level and better lifestyle for the entirety of the world. Essentially, he created a “scientific socialism” (Siegel) which competed directly with other contemporary ideas in that it challenged notions of equality in society and redefined conventions at the time. Furthermore, Wells’ most renowned novel, The War of the Worlds, created new inventions for readers’ minds, which paralleled the newest creations that appeared towards the end of the nineteenth century (Stephens). He opened up the public’s mind to the immense possibilities of technology and revealed the dangerous path that certain countries would be inevitably following if they did not practice caution in their actions and inventions. Moreover, Wells showed citizens in many countries through his utopian novels that they needn’t merely sit back and watch people of another social class steal their money unjustly. His ideals of social equality were prevalent in his works, and he aimed to teach humans that, despite the seemingly inevitability of war, there is always a way to coexist.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Siegel, Fred. ”The Godfather of American Liberalism”. The Manhattan Institute, 2009. Web. 6 <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">November 2013.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Stephens, Jonathan. “H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds”. n.p., September 2005. Web. 6 <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">November 2013.