Wells's novel is also known as The Last War and imagines a peaceful world emerging from the chaos.

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.

The most famous is H. G. Wells's 1895 novel The Time Machine, which uses a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively, while Twain's time traveler is struck in the head.

Critically, it is considered a Bildungsroman – i. e., a novel of self-cultivation – and would be included in the same genre as Dickens's own Great Expectations ( 1861 ), Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh, H. G. Wells's Tono-Bungay, D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, and James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

* H. G. Wells ' The Shape of Things to Come, a Canadian science fiction film from 1979 also based upon Wells's novel

On the night before Halloween in 1938, Orson Welles directed The Mercury Theatre on the Air live radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's classic novel, The War of the Worlds.

Quiet, Please had its roots in The Campbell Playhouse ( 1938 – 1941 ), the successor to Orson Welles's The Mercury Theatre on the Air, which achieved notoriety with its 1938 adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds.

The Eloi are one of the two post-human races in H. G. Wells's 1895 novel The Time Machine.

The novel suggests that the separation of species may have been the result of a widening split between different social classes, a theme that reflects Wells's sociopolitical opinions.

Wells's novel The War of the Worlds describes its use to convey troop trains to the Martian landing site.

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* H. G. Wells's character Ewart in the novel Tono-Bungay, during a long dialogue about the Grundys says, " There's no Mrs. Grundy.

Wells's 1901 novel First Men in the Moon, the English narrator Bedford — the sole survivor of the Moon expedition — attempting to land the antigravity sphere anywhere on Earth, has the good fortune to land it on the seashore at Lympne, reasonably close to his departure point.

The protagonist of the novel is George Ponderevo, whose most intimate life the reader shares ; his uncle Edward, on the other hand, remains a somewhat flat character whose chief function is to symbolize the " wasting aimless fever of trade and money-making and pleasure-seeking " that became, in Wells's view, the most important social forces in late-Victorian and Edwardian England.

Wells's novel Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul.

However, in Wells's novel, one of the first things that Arthur Kipps purchases with his newfound wealth is, indeed, a banjo.

Griffin is a title character and the primary antagonist of H. G. Wells's 1897 science fiction novel The Invisible Man.

Wells's novel Tono-Bungay:

The novel invites comparison with H. G. Wells's 1896 humorous cycling novel, The Wheels of Chance.

This version of the tripods does have some inconsistencies from Wells's description in his novel ; for example, the Heat-Ray emanates from a proboscis in the cupola rather than from a box or case carried by the tripod, the cage to hold captured humans being is used by the handling-machines instead of the fighting-machines, and the " cowl " ( cockpit ) of the fighting-machine is static instead of separately rotating.

First published by the Royal College of Science in 1888, it is the first well-developed use of a machine constructed to travel through time ( a " time machine ") in science fiction, as it predates Wells's more famous time traveling novel, The Time Machine, by 7 years.

The pair have also created Scarlet Traces, a sequel of sorts to H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds in graphic novel form, and Leviathan, a steampunk horror series which appeared in 2000 AD, and contributed a two-part storyline to the Batman event No Man's Land.

On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

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.

The story reflects Wells's own socialist political views, his view on life and abundance, and the contemporary angst about industrial relations.

This book, published about the same time as H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, which includes a mention of Allen, also described time travel, although the plot is quite different.

" 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.

Three sexual relationships ( his unsuccessful marriage to Marion, his affair with the liberated Effie, and his doomed relationship with the Beatrice Normandy, a belle dame sans merci whom he has known since childhood and who loves but refuses to marry him ) are analyzed, and also his frustrated love for his stern, austere mother, a domestic servant, and his powerful attachment to his aunt Susan, a character whose depiction is in part a portrait of Wells's second wife, Amy Catherine Robbins ( known as Jane ).

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.

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

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 ).

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ".

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 ".

* 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.

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.

Wells's tenure as president saw him regularly involved in student activities, with an active interest in their lives.

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.

* The War of the Wenuses ( 1898 ) with C. L. Graves, a parody 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.