In the novel The Shape of Things to Come, published in 1933, H. G. Wells depicted Basic English as the lingua franca of a new elite which after a prolonged struggle succeeds in uniting the world and establishing a totalitarian world government.

Wells novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, a reference carried further by the naming of their 2011 tour " He Who Breaks the Law ".

Not all his scientific romances ended in a happy Utopia, and in fact, Wells also wrote a dystopian novel, When the Sleeper Wakes ( 1899, rewritten as The Sleeper Awakes, 1910 ), which pictures a future society where the classes have become more and more separated, leading to a revolt of the masses against the rulers.

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.

An almost literal use of the phrase appears in popular fiction within H. G. Wells ' 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come, where the protagonist finds a manuscript written in shorthand that provides a key to understanding additional scattered material that is sketched out in both longhand and on typewriter.

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

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

" He had thought of using some of this material in a series of articles in the Pall Mall Gazette, until the publisher asked him if he could instead write a serial novel on the same theme ; Wells readily agreed, and was paid £ 100 ( equal to about £ today ) on its publication by Heinemann in 1895.

Wells wrote in his 1909 semi-autobiographical novel Tono-Bungay, " Three energetic young men of the hooligan type, in neck-wraps and caps, were packing wooden cases with papered-up bottles, amidst much straw and confusion ".

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.

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.

John Irving wrote of the book many times in his novel " The Cider House Rules " in which the main character, Homer Wells, reads " David Copperfield " to the other orphans every night before bed.

Wells ' short novel The Time Machine has the unnamed protagonist traveling to the year 802, 701 A. D. when civilization has collapsed and humanity has been split into two distinct species, the elfin Eloi and the underground Morlocks.

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

Love and Mr Lewisham is an 1899 novel set in the 1880s by H. G. Wells.

Love and Mr Lewisham was well received, and C. F. G. Masterman told Wells that he believed that along with Kipps it was the novel most likely to endure.

* The fictitious Kingsbridge Cathedral in TV miniseries, The Pillars of the Earth ( 2010 ) based on a historical novel by the same name by Ken Follett is modeled on the cathedrals of Wells and Salisbury.

* The Time Machine, an 1895 novel by H. G. Wells, which introduced the term

** The Time Machine ( 2002 film ), a film based on the novel, directed by Simon Wells

* The New Adventures of the Time Machine, a 2000 video game designed as a sequel to H. G. Wells ' novel

It was not widely read, and consequently Wells ' vastly more successful novel is generally credited as the seminal alien invasion story.

He and Connolly would leave the school grounds and set out across the Downs to Beachy Head, or far along the plunging leafy roads that led deep into the Sussex countryside, to villages that might have figured in a Wells novel: Eastdean and Westdean and Jevington.

* Time After Time ( 1979 film ), an American time travel film involving H. G. Wells based on the Alexander novel

Furthermore Roehampton is an important location within H G Wells ' novel The Sleeper Awakes.

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.

Wells ' The War of the Worlds describes an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians using tripod fighting machines equipped with advanced weaponry.

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 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.

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

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.