Other productions within Europe waited until the end of the Second World War, some notable ones being in January 1963 in London at Sadler's Wells Opera conducted by Colin Davis and in Berlin in September 1977 by the Komische Oper.

Statue of a The War of the Worlds Tripod ( The War of the Worlds ) | tripod, erected as a tribute to H. G. Wells in the centre of the town of Woking, England

In 1933 Wells predicted in The Shape of Things to Come that the world war he feared would begin January 1940, a prediction which ultimately came true just four months early, when the Second World War broke out in September 1939.

Near the end of the Second World War, Allied forces discovered that the SS had compiled lists of people slated for immediate arrest during the invasion of Britain in the abandoned Operation Sea Lion, and Wells was included in the alphabetical list on the same page of " The Black Book " as Rebecca West.

Little Wars is recognised today as the first recreational wargame and Wells is regarded by gamers and hobbyists as " the Father of Miniature War Gaming ".

Wells had given some moderate, unenthusiastic support for Territorialism before the First World War, but later became a bitter opponent of the Zionist movement in general.

On 28 October 1940 Wells was interviewed by Orson Welles, who two years previously had performed an infamous radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds, on KTSA radio in San Antonio, Texas.

In his preface to the 1941 edition of The War in the Air, Wells had stated that his epitaph should be: " I told you so.

* " H. G. Wells warned us how it would feel to fight a War of the Worlds ", by Niall Ferguson, in The Telegraph, 24 Jun 2005.

* The War of the Worlds ( 1898 ) by H. G. Wells.

Scarlet Traces is intended as a sequel to H. G. Wells ' The War of the Worlds and centres on a counter-invasion of Mars, beginning about 1908 and continuing over the next three decades.

The War of the Worlds is an 1898 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells.

Wells ' The War of the Worlds ( 2005 film ), a film by Timothy Hines

* H. G. Wells ' War of the Worlds ( 2005 film ), a film by David Michael Latt

* H. G. Wells ' The War of the Worlds ( comics ), a 2006 graphic novel adaptation by Ian Edginton and D ' Israeli

* H. G. Wells published The Time Machine ( 1895 ), The Island of Doctor Moreau ( 1896 ), and The War of the Worlds ( 1898 ).

H. G. Wells created modern science fiction with his book The War of the Worlds.

For example, in 1933 H. G. Wells postulated in The Shape of Things to Come a Second World War in which Nazi Germany and Poland are evenly matched militarily, fighting an indecisive war over ten years ; and Poul Anderson's early 1950s Psychotechnic League depicted a world undergoing a devastating nuclear war in 1958, yet by the early 21st century managing not only to rebuild the ruins on Earth but also engage in extensive space colonization of the Moon and several planets.

* The War of the Worlds ( 1898 ) by H. G. Wells.

The Niagara Falls area features as the base camp for a German aerial invasion of the United States in the H. G. Wells novel The War in the Air.

Wells ' War of the Worlds, devised and produced by former David Essex producer Jeff Wayne.

Perhaps America's most famous radio drama broadcast is Orson Welles's The War of the Worlds, a 1938 version of the H. G. Wells novel, which convinced large numbers of listeners that an actual invasion from Mars was taking place.

Wells became a trading centre and involved in cloth making before its involvement in both the English Civil War and the Monmouth Rebellion during the 17th century.

Wells ' 1898 novel The War of the Worlds depicts an invasion of Earth by inhabitants of the planet Mars.

Wyndham frequently acknowledged the influence of H. G. Wells ' The War of the Worlds on The Day of the Triffids.

He appears in the first episode of the 2001 miniseries The Infinite Worlds of H. G. Wells, rejecting a story from Wells for being too long and too preposterous.

Nishikado drew inspiration for the aliens from H. G. Wells ' The War of the Worlds — he had watched the 1953 film adaptation as a child — and created initial bitmap images after the octopus-like aliens.

Wells ' novel The War of the Worlds exploits invasion panics that were common when science fiction was first emerging as a genre.

Wells published The War of the Worlds, depicting the invasion of Victorian England by Martians equipped with advanced weaponry.

Wells had already proposed another outcome for the alien invasion story in The War of the Worlds.

The classic treatment was The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, which was made into movies in 1953 and 2005, as well as numerous radio adaptations and a TV series.

In notes to accompany his biographical novel A Man of Parts David Lodge describes how Wells came to regret his attitudes to the Jews as he became more aware of the extent of the Nazi atrocities.

Throughout the book, Wells describes his vision of the world brain: a new, free, synthetic, authoritative, permanent " World Encyclopaedia " that could help world citizens make the best use of universal information resources and make the best contribution to world peace.

Wells ' The War of the Worlds told from the perspective of a small town Texas sheriff ( a homage to Slim Pickens ) who finds an off-course Martian cylinder crashing down near his town ; " Heirs of the Perisphere " involves robotic Disney characters waking up in the far future ; " Fin de Cyclé " describes the Dreyfus affair from the perspective of bicycle enthusiasts.

H. G. Wells, in his comic novel The Wheels of Chance, describes the cycle collision of ' Mr Hoopdriver ' and a ' Young Lady in Grey '; the young lady approaching ' along an affluent from the villas of Surbiton '.

( Wells describes a fictional utopian world in which crowds have been eliminated from society.

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.

" It is idle for men to say that the conditions which Miss Wells describes do not exist ," a British editor wrote.

They receive no mention, for instance, in H. G. Wells ' The War of the Worlds ( 1897 ), which describes a slowly drying Mars, covetous of Earth's resources, but one which still has dwindling oceans such as are depicted on Schiaparelli's maps.

" The arguments put by Wells have been dismissed by Majerus, Cook and peppered moth researcher Bruce Grant who describes Wells as distorting the picture by selectively omitting or scrambling references in a way that is dishonest.

A version of the drawing is on the cover of the book, and Wells describes it as the " ultimate icon " of evolution.

When he hypnotizes her, she describes living a previous life in late 18th century England as " Melinda Wells ", who died in her late twenties from circumstances beyond her control.

Wells describes in his book the situation of mankind about 800, 000 years later, and ' Eloy ' is a human race in his story.

Just prior to a number of various customers coming into a diner during a heavy rain, a state trooper, Dennis Wells, known to the workers, comes in and describes a massacre at a local motel.

The novel The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by H. G. Wells describes a kind of food that can accelerate and extend the growth process, which when introduced to the world causes great upheavals.

The book is written in a whimsical style and illustrated with amusing drawings and photographs of a game being played that Wells describes in the book.

H. G. Wells first describes the tripods in detail early in the novel: