About 500 years after the first printed volumes appeared, the remarkable innovation of the printing press is celebrated by HG Wells in this talk for BBC Radio. Wells looks back through the history of ...

HG Wells addresses the British Association Conference on the topic of Science and the Citizen. In typical provocative style, he dismisses the medium of the newspaper as dead and the art of journalism ...

H.G. Wells' opinions carry some weight, especially when it comes to science fiction. With "The War of the Worlds," "The Time Machine," "The Invisible Man," and "The Island of Dr. Moreau," he penned ...

Science fiction pioneer H.G. Wells conjured some futuristic visions that haven't (yet) come true: a machine that travels back in time, a man who turns invisible, and a Martian invasion that destroys ...

The complicated relationship between author H.G. Wells and women and his writing about time, space and the fourth dimension. On the opening night of the London Literature Festival, Matthew Sweet ...

The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, which might be why the 1988 TV series, "War of the Worlds," revealed H.G. Well's iconic Martians actually came from a different planet ...

Herbert George Wells, popularly known as H. G. Wells was one of the most influential authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The author can be described as one of the pioneers of science ...