Wells's literary reputation declined as he spent his later years promoting causes that were rejected by most of his contemporaries.

Some time later, a German Messerschmitt plane arrives over the campsite, drops a Carolinum bomb ( analogous to an atomic bomb in our world ; see Wells's The World Set Free ), and devastates the time-traveling Juggernauts and all but twelve of the Force.

These novels are very personal as well, treating aspects of Wells's own life, matters which would come under attack later, but only after he added his sexual and extramarital views to the personal side of his work.

A month later, he made his pay-per-view debut, defeating George Wells at WrestleMania 2, memorably making Wells vomit when he wrapped his snake Damien around Wells's head.

The two returned to Britain after a number of weeks, though Amber later gave birth to Wells's daughter, Anna-Jane Blanco White, after the relationship ended.

H. G. Wells's ( 1866-1946 ) writing career began in the 1890s with science fiction novels like The Time Machine ( 1895 ), and The War of the Worlds ( 1898 ) which describes an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians, and Wells is seen, along with Frenchman Jules Verne ( 1828-1905 ), as a major figure in the development of the science fiction genre.

His work and essays popularising the new understanding of radioactivity was the main inspiration for H. G. Wells's The World Set Free ( 1914 ), which features atomic bombs dropped from biplanes in a war set many years in the future.

Wells's earliest specialised training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a specifically and fundamentally Darwinian context.

A defining incident of young Wells's life was an accident in 1874 that left him bedridden with a broken leg.

Wells's first non-fiction bestseller was Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought ( 1901 ).

Social class was a theme in Wells's The Time Machine in which the Time Traveller speaks of the future world, with its two races, as having evolved from the gradual widening of the present ( 19th century ) merely temporary and social difference between the Capitalist and the Labourer ...

Following the Moscow Olympics, there was some suggestion that Wells's gold medal had been devalued by the boycott of the games.

It was on Mercury Theatre that Welles presented his celebrated-but-infamous adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, formatted to sound like a breaking news program.

Wells's film treatment and selected production notes were published in book form in 1935, and was reprinted in 1940 and 1975.

Sadler's Wells's traditional policy of giving all operas in English continued, with only two exceptions: Oedipus Rex, which was sung in Latin, and Monteverdi's L ' Orfeo, sung in Italian, for reasons not clear to the press.

A constant theme of Wells's work, such as his 1901 nonfiction book Anticipations, was the effect of energy and technological advance as a determinant of human progress.

Wells's story " The Chronic Argonauts " ( 1888 ), which was a precursor to The Time Machine ( 1895 ).

" Although not all Wells's stories were optimistic about the future, this implies Forster was concerned about human dependence on technology.

In a June 16, 1928 article in the Illustrated London News, Wells's good friend and lifelong critic G. K. Chesterton reviewed the book and explained the danger he saw in what Wells was saying about the " general tendency towards establishing a world control.

* In 1934 Arnold J. Toynbee dismissed the criticism of The Outline of History and praised Wells's work in his A Study of History: Mr. H. G. Wells ’ s The Outline of History was received with unmistakable hostility by a number of historical specialists.

Universal Pictures also prepared a feature length edited version of this serial, which was already in print and ready for release in October 1938 when Orson Welles astounded the entire USA with his Mercury Theatre on the Air radio production of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds.

Chandler also had success with his hit cover of James Brown's " There Was A Time " and " You Threw A Lucky Punch ", which was released as an " answer " song to Mary Wells's Motown hit " You Beat Me To The Punch ".

He administered several glysters until satisfied with the results, following which Canning was taken by her friends and neighbours to the Guildhall to see Alderman Thomas Chitty, to ask that he issue a warrant for Wells's arrest.

It was first published in the April 1904 issue of the Strand Magazine and included in a 1911 collection of Wells's short stories, The Country of the Blind and Other Stories.

Wells's Things to Come ( 1936 ), Thesiger's performance was deemed unsuitable by the author, and so was replaced by Cedric Hardwicke, although he was retained on the parallel production of Wells's The Man Who Could Work Miracles.

Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

* " H. G. Wells's Idea of a World Brain: A Critical Re-assessment ", by W. Boyd Rayward, in Journal of the American Society for Information Science 50 ( 15 May 1999 ): 557 – 579

Matzke concluded, " Icons of Evolution makes a travesty of the notion of honest scholarship ", and that " Icons contains numerous instances of unfair distortions of scientific opinion, generated by the pseudoscientific tactics of selective citation of scientists and evidence, quote-mining, and ' argumentative sleight-of-hand ', the last meaning Wells's tactic of padding his topical discussions with incessant, biased editorializing ".

Wells's views on evolution have been rejected by the scientific community.

Nevertheless, its popularity and literary achievements were overshadowed by Wells's works of science fiction, such as The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and his most popular work, The War of the Worlds.

Finding a copy of Wells's Outline of History, it turns out to be identical to the one he knows until 1903, at which point the alternate Wells records the invention of anti-gravity, a fast human expansion into space, a brutal war for the conquest of Mars which Wells strongly denounces, followed by a titanic conflict with Arcturus.

* In John Updike's 1961 story " Pigeon Feathers ," the young protagonist finds a copy of Outline of History and is surprised and disturbed by Wells's descriptions of Jesus.

But I do like the few real masterpieces in the field — certain of H. G. Wells's novels, S. Fowler Wright's The World Below, & that marvellous piece of imagination by W. Olaf Stapledon, Last & First Men.

Wells and the producers were once again nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series at the 2001 ceremony for their work on the seventh season and were again beaten by Wells's other series The West Wing.

This closely echoes the description of the far future Earth described by the protagonist of HG Wells's The Time Machine.

* Thomas Edison himself was the main character in Edison's Conquest of Mars by Garrett P. Serviss ( 1898 ), a sequel to Fighters from Mars ( in the form of a revenge fantasy ) an unauthorized and altered adaptation of Wells's The War of the Worlds.

Barringer's Confederates, the 1st and 2d North Carolina Volunteer Cavalry Regiments with a single artillery piece, with the 5th North Carolina Volunteer Cavalry Regiment in reserve, counterattacked the 8th New York Volunteer Cavalry Regiment of Wells's brigade, commanded by Maj. James Bliss, as they reached the Namozine Church After sharp fighting, the Confederate cavalry were turned away by the 8th New York Cavalry and reinforcements from the 15th New York Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, commanded by Col. John J. Coppinger ' and the 1st Vermont Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, commanded by Lt. Col. Josiah Hall.

This would be the beginning of Herbert George Wells's venture into literature.

The " Outlines " became sufficiently common for James Thurber to parody the trend in his humorous essay, " An Outline of Scientists "— indeed, Wells's Outline of History remains in print with a new 2005 edition, while A Short History of the World has been recently reedited ( 2006 ).

We made the date for two o'clock in the afternoon at Maxine Wells's pad.

In October 1879 Wells's mother arranged through a distant relative, Arthur Williams, for him to join the National School at Wookey in Somerset as a pupil-teacher, a senior pupil who acted as a teacher of younger children.

Wells's novel revolves around an ( unspecified ) invention that accelerates the process of radioactive decay, producing bombs that explode with no more than the force of ordinary high explosive — but which " continue to explode " for days on end.

This lecture lays out Wells's vision for "... a sort of mental clearing house for the mind, a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared.

Wells's personal best for the 100 metres is 10. 11, and for the 200 metres is 20. 21, run at the Moscow 1980 games, and both are still Scottish records.

" Two dramatic works from this decade remain well known, the music for Alexander Korda's 1936 film of H. G. Wells's Things to Come, and a ballet score to his own scenario based on a chess game.

In Wells's story, the " atomic bombs " have no more force than ordinary high explosive — but they " continue to explode " for long periods of time:

In this, Heinlein's vision of the future could be considered a watered-down version of that in Wells's The Shape of Things to Come where determined reformers completely suppress all organized religion for the explicit purpose of gaining a complete monopoly over education.

Thomas Rosoman, manager from 1746 to 1771, established the Wells's pedigree for opera production and oversaw the construction of a new stone theatre, in just seven weeks – at a cost of £ 4, 225 ; it opened in April 1765.

In 162 games ( tied for second in the AL with Miguel Tejada behind Hideki Matsui's 163 ), he batted. 311 ( ninth ) with 47 doubles ( third behind Garrett Anderson's and Vernon Wells's 49 ), 34 home runs ( ninth ), and 107 RBI ( tied for eighth with Jason Giambi ).

Wagar presents a number of issues on which he is in disagreement with Wells's scheme for global reconstruction and a " global commonweal ".

* Wells's call for citizen refusal to take part in future patriotic wars.

* Wells's demand for the transfer of the ownership of several key categories of capital from private hands to duly constituted world authorities.

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