H.G. Wells (1866 - 1946)

Date of Birth: 21 September 1866
Place of Birth: Bromley, Kent, England, UK
Date of Death: 13 August 1946
Place of Death: London, England, UK
Also Known As: Herbert George Wells (full name)

The best known and arguably still the best loved of all British science fiction writers, Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley in Kent, the son of a shopkeeper and a mother who had strong aspirations to join the middles classes. But Wells' early life was far from the relative comfort enjoyed by the middle classes - when his father's business failed, Wells' mother was forced back into domestic service and her aspirations were soon transferred to her son.

On leaving school, Wells, like his brothers, was apprenticed to a local draper but his first true calling was as a teacher. In 1883, he took up a post at the Midhurst Grammar School and was suitably inspired to pursue an academic life for himself. On a scholarship, he attended the Normal School of Science in London where he studied biology under the Darwinian T.H. Huxley whose scientific humanism was to inform much of Wells' subsequent thinking.

Before graduating, Wells returned to teaching, completing his degree externally and in 1893, he published two textbooks on his chosen subject. At this time, he was working for the University Correspondence College and developing his love of writing. He had published the article The Rediscovery of the Unique in 1891 and was soon a regular contributor to all the major scientific journals.

Of his early work, The Man of Year Million (1893) is probably the most interesting and important. Wells expressed his Darwinian beliefs in the form of an audacious pronouncement on what he envisaged the human race to look like in the distant future. It was much his first work of science fiction as it was a treatise on Darwinian theory.

Other articles began to reflect Wells' interest in the speculative application of his training - An Excursion to the Sun took readers on an imaginative journey through the cosmos to describe the natural wonders found there; The Advent of the Flying Man is probably self-explanatory; The Living Things That May Be is a treatise on the possibility of silicon-based life; while The Extinction of Man dares to describe nothing less than the death of humanity. Much of this fascinating early work was collected in 1975 by Robert M. Philmus and David Y. Hughes as H.G. Wells: Early Writings in Science and Science Fiction.

By the mid-1890s, Wells was beginning to write purely fictional work alongside his speculative non-fiction, though to be honest much of this early work was unimpressive and gave no indication of the better material to come. The Chronic Argonauts (1888), however, was to prove important - originally published in The Science Schools Journal, Wells' own amateur journal, it would be extensively reworked by Wells to form the basis for his first long form work, The Time Machine: An Invention (1895). Reflecting his Darwinian background, it charted the journey into the future by the unnamed narrator and the vast evolutionary changes he witnesses.

The Time Machine also reflected some of the social concerns that preoccupied Wells, a long-time though unorthodox socialist. Possibly inspired by his mother's lust for middle class acceptability, Wells used the novel to paint an exaggerated portrait of the class divide in its portrayal of the futuristic society populated by the sheep-like Eloi and the brutal, materialistic Morlocks. The same year he published one of his lesser known works, The Wonderful Visit, in which an angel arrives in Victorian London to act as Wells' mouthpiece on a number of pressing social issues.

Between them, these two novels laid the foundations for almost all of his subsequent work. The following year he explored the twin themes of Darwinism and socialism more allegorically in The Island of Dr Moreau, which contained ideas he had expanded from his essay The Limits of Plasticity. The novel isn't quite as strong as its reputation might suggest (ironically, the 1933 film adaptation, Island of Lost Souls is far better and may account in part for the novel's longevity), bearing evidence of Wells having stretched his material a little too thinly for its own good.

More short stories followed, each increasingly confident and audacious in its ideas, before Wells produced his next classic novel, The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance (1897) which, like The Island of Dr Moreau, explored the fallibility of science in the hands of an arrogant and self-destructive scientist.

But it was 1898 that saw the publication of Wells' masterpiece, the magnificent The War of the Worlds, a novel that still impresses even now. This epic tale of the Home counties under the heel of Martian invaders has been much copied but rarely matched for its brevity of style and breadth of scope. Unforgettable images abound - the unnamed narrator's (a favourite Wellsian trick) first glimpse of the monstrous Martian fighting machines; the battle at the riverside; the apocalyptic vision of the English countryside devoured by the Martian's noxious, creeping red weed.

Nothing Wells was to do after War of the Worlds quite matched its splendour, though fine work continued to be produced. When the Sleeper Wakes (1899) was Wells' most blatantly socialist work so far, imagining a future which perfectly mirrored his own take on socialism - he was unable to accept the usual socialist doctrines and firmly believed that although social equality and justice were possible, they would have to be instituted by a ruling intelligentsia and not, as the usual socialist dogma would have it, by the masses themselves. In Well's novel, a future socialist revolution is fired by and overseen by an ordinary man who wakes from an extended period of suspended animation.

As the twentieth century dawned, Wells seemed to be losing interest in his science fiction - or scientific romances as they were known at the time - as he turned more towards the 'serious' work he had long wanted to produce. He published The First Men in the Moon in 1901, the tale of a trip to the moon and the uncovering of a dystopian society of lunar Selenites.

With that, Wells temporarily moved away from SF as he produced a series of more realistic novels, among them the light comedies Kipps (1905), The History of Mr Polly (1910) and Bealby: A Holiday (1915) and the heavier Love and Mr Lewisham (1900), Tono-Bungay and Ann Veronica (both 1909) and the political novel The New Maciavelli (1910).

During this period, the bulk of Wells' speculative work appeared in the form of essays as the author positioned himself at the forefront of futurology, the supposed scientific study of possible future events. Wells began to publish predictive works, much of them collected in 1901 under the grandiose title Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Human Progress upon Human Life and Thought. The essays seemed to mark a shift in Well's intellectual stance, and from this point on his remaining SF would invariably take the form of future-histories, rather than the 'scientific romances' of old.

The work produced by Wells in the genre after 1900 seems pale by comparison to his earlier work. Novels like A Modern Utopia (1905) and Men Like Gods (1923) read like extended treatises on socialism rather than the more balanced reads of The Time Machine or The War of the Worlds. The Food of the Gods, and How it Came to Earth (1904) and In the Days of the Comet (1906) are more fanciful, less scientifically rigorous.

But there was still some life in the old dog yet as his thoughts, like many of his countrymen at the time, inevitably turned to the prospect of war. A series of stories, essays and novels found Wells seriously ruminating on the possible nature of future conflicts and he proved to be remarkably prescient in his vision - the short story The Land Ironclads (1903) depicted a battle between tanks long before they were deployed in the real world, while the novel The War in the Air, and Particularly How Mr Bert Smallways Fared While it Lasted, despite the whimsical title, is a devastating account of aerial bombardment that reads almost like an uncanny premonition of the Blitz.

Much of this work reflected Well's growing frustration with Man's nature and future - if, indeed it had one at all. The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind horrifically envisions a future world where nuclear weapons are triggered and a chain reaction keeps them exploding repeatedly. Though frustrated by Mankind's behaviour (he would later dub the years after 1918 the "Age of Frustration") Wells still clung to the socialist Utopian belief that a new, better world could be created from the ashes of the old if only we could be brave enough to do it. Indeed, so firm was this belief that when World War I began, Wells greeted it with some enthusiasm, believing that this would be the cataclysmic event that might bring about his Utopian vision.

His enthusiasm was soon dampened however, though he continued to belief in Mankind's Utopian future, and turned in one last masterpiece on the back of those beliefs. The Shape of Things To Come (1933) is a true epic, drawn from Well's own 3 volume philosophical meditation The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind. While he wrote several other works subsequent to The Shape of Things to Come, it was to be his last major work.

Wells died in 1946, leaving behind him a body of work who's influence is still felt today. Many of the finest SF writers of the late 20th century owe him a debt of gratitude and some have even sought to follow up some of his best works - Christopher Priest's imaginative The Space Machine manages to be a sequel to two of them, as its hero (Wells himself) is whisked away to Mars in the time machine to arrive on the red planet just as the Martian invasion of Earth is beginning. Stephen Baxter's The Time Ships is an epic continuation of The Time Machine while K. W. Jeter's Morlock Night (1979) imagines that the hideous subterranean creatures of Well's novel use the time machine to travel back to Victorian London and wage war from the sewers.
KEVIN LYONS

* = television

1902
Le voyage dans la lune (novel (First Men in the Moon))
Die Reise zum Mond - German title
A Trip to Mars - US title
A Trip to the Moon - UK / US title
Viaggio nella Luna - Italian title
Viaje a la luna - Spanish title
Voyage to the Moon

1909
The Airship Destroyer (ideas)
Aerial Torpedo
Aerial Warfare
The Battle in the Clouds
The Battle of the Clouds
Death in the Air
Fury in the Skies
The Love Life of the Inventor of a Torpedo
The Possibilities of War in the Air
Romance of the Inventor of the First Aerial Torpedo

1913
Isle d'epouvante (novel (The Island of Dr Moreau))
The Island of Terror

1919
The First Men in the Moon (novel)

1921
Die Insel der Verschollenen (novel (The Island of Dr Moreau))
The Island of the Lost - US title

1933
The Invisible Man (novel)
El hombre invisible - Spanish title
L'homme invisible - French title
Niewidzialny czlowiek - Polish title
Den osynlige mannen - Swedish title
Der Unsichtbare - Austrian / German title
L'uomo invisibile - Italian title

Island of Lost Souls (novel (The Island of Dr Moreau))
The Island of Dr Moreau - early title

1936
The Man Who Could Work Miracles (novel)
Der Mann, der die Welt verändern wollte - German title
Der Mann, der Wunder wirkte - Austrian title
Mies, joka teki ihmeitä - Finnish title
L'uomo dei miracoli - Italian title

Things to Come (script; novel (The Shape of Things to Come))
The Hundred Years to Come - working title
Lo que vendra - Argentinian title
Nel duemila guerra o pace? - Italian title
The Shape of Things to Come - working title
Tulevia aikoja - Finnish title
La vida futura - Spanish title
La vie future - French title
La vita futura - Italian title
Whither Mankind - working title

1940
The Invisible Man Returns (characters)
El hombre invisible vuelve - Spanish title
Den Osynlige mannens aterkomst - Swedish title
El regreso del hombre invisible - Venezuelan title
Il ritorno dell'uomo invisibile - Italian title
Der unsichtbare kehrt zurück - Germany title

1942
Invisible Agent (novel (The Invisible Man))
L'agent invisible - French title
Gestapos fiende nr 1 - Swedish title
Der Unsichtbare Agent - German title

1944
The Invisible Man's Revenge (characters)
Näkymättömän miehen kosto - Finnish title
Den osynlige mannens hämnd - Swedish title
La rivincita dell'uomo invisibile - Italian title
Der Unsichtbare nimmt Rache - German title
La venganza del hombre invisible - Spanish title

1945
Dead of Night (story (The Golfing Story))
Al morir la noche - Spanish title
Au coeur de la nuit - French title
Incubi notturni - Italian title
Kuolema saapuu yöllä - Finnish title
Nattens mysterier - Danish title
Skuggor i natten - Swedish title
Traum ohne Ende - German title
U progu tajemnicy - Polish title
Unheimliche Geschichten - Austrian title

1949
The Time Machine (novel) *

1951
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (story (The Invisible Man))
Abbott & Costello ja näkymätön mies - Finnish title
Abbott and Costello spotykaja niewidzialnego czlowieka - Polish title
Abbott e Costello e o Homem Invisível - Portuguese title
Abbott och Costello möter osynlige mannen - Swedish title
Abbott y Costello contra el hombre invisible - Argentinean title
Auf Sherlock Holmes' Spuren - Austrian / West German title
Deux nigauds contre l'homme invisible - French title
Deux nigauds et l'homme invisible - French / French Canadian title
Gianni e Pinotto contro l'uomo invisibile - Italian title
Das Unsichtbare trifft Abbott und Costello - West German title

Tales of Tomorrow: The Crystal Egg (short story) *

1952
The Wonderful Visit (novel) *

1953
War of the Worlds (novel)
La guerra de los mundos - Spanish title
La guerra dei mondi - Italian title
La guerre des mondes - French / French Belgian title
Kampf der Welten - Austrian / West German title
Maailmojen sota - Finnish title
Oorlog der werelden - Flemish Belgian title
Världarnas krig - Swedish title
Wojna swiatów - Polish title

1955
Görünmeyen adam Istanbul'da (novel (The Invisible Man))
The Invisible Man in Istanbul

Matinee Theatre: The Invisible Man (novel)

1956
The Door In the Wall (short story)

1958
Invisible Man (novel) *
L'homme invisible - French title
Der Unsichtbare - West German title

1959
Terror Is a Man (novel (The Island of Dr Moreau) - uncredited)
Blood Creature - re-release title
Creature from Blood Island
The Gory Creatures

1960
The Time Machine (novel)
Aikakone - Finnish title
La machine à explorer le temps - French title
A Máquina do Tempo - Brazilian title
Rædselsrejsen - Danish title
Tidsmaskinen - Swedish title
El tiempo en sus manos - Spanish title
L'uomo che visse nel futuro - Italian title
Die Zeitmaschine - Austrian / West German title

1964
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Magic Shop (10 January 1964) (story) *

First Men in the Moon (novel)
Base luna chiama terra - Italian title
Ensimmäiset miehet kuussa - Finnish title
Die Erste Fahrt zum Mond - West German title
Först på månen - Swedish title
Første mand på månen - Danish title
La gran sorpresa - Spanish title
Les premiers hommes dans la lune - French Belgian title

1965
Village of the Giants (novel (The Food of the Gods))
Óriások falva - Hungarian title

1966
Play of the Month: Days to Come (story) *

1970
Dan-dan han changugi gyo in (novel (Food of the Gods))

1972
The Twilight People (novel (The Island of Dr Moreau))
Beasts
Il crepuscolo della scienza - Italian title
Island of the Twilight People

1975
The Invisible Man (novel (The Invisible Man)) *
L'homme invisible - French title
Der Unsichtbare - West German title

1976
Food of the Gods (novel)
El alimento de los dioses - Spanish title
O Alimento dos Deuses - Brazilian television title
Il cibo degli dei - Italian title
A Fúria das Feras Atômicas - Brazilian title
Die Insel der Ungeheuer - West German title
Rottien kosto - Finnish title
Soudain les monstres - French title

Gemini Man (novel (The Invisible Man)) *
Le nouvel homme invisible - French title

Riding with Death (novel (The Invisible Man)) *
Näkymätön suojelija - Finnish title

1977
Empire of the Ants (novel)
L'empire des fourmis géantes - French title
L'imperi de les formigues - Catalan Spanish title
O Império das Formigas - Brazilian title
El imperio de las hormigas - Venezuelan title
Imperium mrówek - Polish title
L'impero delle termiti giganti - Italian title
In der Gewalt der Riesenameisen - West German title
Massornas krig - Swedish title
Muurahaisten valtakunta - Finnish title

The Island of Dr Moreau (story)
A Ilha do Dr Moreau - Brazilian / Portuguese title
Förvandlingens ö - Swedish title
L'île du docteur Moreau - French title
Die Insel des Dr Moreau - Austrian / West German title
La isla del Doctor Moreau - Spanish title
L'isola del dottor Moreau - Italian title
Paholaisen saari - Finnish title

1978
The Time Machine (novel) *
Die Zeitmaschine - West German title

1979
The Shape of Things to Come (novel)
Delta III - West German title
El mundo que viene - Spanish title
Taistelu avaruudessa - Finnish title
Tulevaisuuden maailma - Finnish title

1981
Wojna swiatów - nastepne stulecie (dedicated to)
The War of the World: Next Century

1982
The Magic Shop (short story)

1984
Chelovek-nevidimka (novel)
The Invisible Man

The Invisible Man (novel) *

1988
War of the Worlds (novel (uncredited)) *
La guerra de los mundos II: la nueva generación - Spanish title
Krieg der Welten - West German title
Maailmojen sota - Finnish title
Világok harca - Hungarian title
War of the Worlds: The Second Invasion - 2nd season title

1992
Time Machine (novel)

Volshebnaya lavka (story (The Magic Shop))

1994
The War of the Worlds: Great Books (himself in archive footage))

1996
The Island of Dr Moreau (novel)
A Ilha do Dr Moreau - Portuguese title
D.N.A. - Japanese title
D.N.A. - Experiment des Wahnsinns - Austrian / German title
DNA - Die Insel des Dr Moreau - German title
Dr Moreau szigete - Hungarian title
L'île du docteur Moreau - French / French Canadian title
L'île du Dr Moreau - French title
La isla del Dr Moreau (Moreau's Island) - Spanish title
L'isola perduta - Italian title
Ostrov dr Moreaua - Czech title
Tohtori Moreaun saari - Finnish title

1998
Things 3: Old Things (story (The Crystal Egg); thanks)
Dead Time Tales - alternative title

2000
The Invisible Man (novel) *
El hombre invisible - Spanish title
I-Man - 2nd season title
Näkymätön mies - Finnish title

2001
The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells (short stories) *

2002
The Erotic Time Machine (novel (uncredited))

The Time Machine (novel)
Aikakone - Finnish title
Az idögép - Hungarian title
La machine à explorer le temps - French / French Canadian title
La máquina del tiempo - Argentinean / Peruvian / Spanish title
A Máquina do Tempo - Brazilian / Portuguese title
Masina timpului - Romanian title
The time machine - Dove vorresti andare? - Italian title
Wehikul czasu - Polish title

2005
The War of the Worlds (novel)
La guerra de los mundos - Spanish / Venezuelan title
La guerra dei mondi - Italian title
La guerra dels mons - Catalan Spanish title
La guerre des mondes - French title
Krieg der Welten - German title
Maailmade sõda - Estonian title
Världarnas krig - Swedish title
War of the worlds - Maailmojen sota - Finnish title

The War of the Worlds (novel)

H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (novel)

NO DATE
Bookmark: H.G. Wells Part 1 - Bromley Boy (subject of documentary) *

Bookmark: H.G. Wells Part 2 - The Panther and the Jaguar (subject of documentary) *

1921
Kipps (novel)

1922
The Jungle Goddess (performer (Lord Castleton))

The Passionate Friends (novel)

The Wheels of Chance (novel)

1927
Marriage (novel)

1928
Bluebottles (story)

Daydreams (story)

H.G. Wells Comedies (stories)

The Tonic (story)

1941
Kipps (novel)
Kipps - Roman eines einfachen Menschen - German title
Mr Kipps - Swedish title
The Remarkable Mr Kipps - US title

1949
The History of Mr Polly (story)

The Passionate Friends (novel)
Els amics apassionats - Catalan Spanish title
Amigos apasionados - Spanish title
Les amis passionnés - French title
Die Große Leidenschaft - Austrian / West German title
Kielletty ystävyys - Finnish title
Längtan - Swedish title
One Woman's Story - US title
Sogno d'amanti - Italian title
Stjålne timer - Danish title

1953
Your Favorite Story: Strange Valley (short story (In the Country of the Blind)) *

1961
The DuPont Show of the Week: The Richest Man in Bogota (short story (In the Country of the Blind)) *

1967
Half a Sixpence (story (Kipps))
Kolikonpuolikas - Finnish title
La mitad de seis peniques - Spanish title
A Moedinha do Amor - Brazilian title

1972
Love and Mr Lewisham (novel) *

1976
Das Land der Blinden oder Von einem der auszog (story) *

1980
The History of Mr Polly (novel) *

2004
The Greatest Canadian (performer (himself in archive footage)) *

SHORT STORIES

1894
The Stolen Bacillus

In the Avu Observatory

The Flowering of the Strange Orchid

Aepyornis Island

1896
Under the Knife

1897
A Story of the Stone Age

1898
The Man Who Could Work Miracles

1903
The Land Ironclads

1921
The Grisly Folk

NO DATE
The Story of the Last Trump

NOVELLAS

1899
A Story of the Days to Come (first published in 1976 in Pall Mall Magazine)

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

1895
The Stolen Bacillus, and Other Incidents

1897
The Plattner Story, and Others

1899
Tales of Space and Time

1903
Twelve Stories and a Dream

1911
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories

1927
The Short Stories of H.G. Wells (aka: The Famous Short Stories of H.G. Wells, aka: The Complete Short Stories of H.G. Wells)

1952
28 Science Fiction Stories

1958
Selected Short Stories

1966
The Best Science Fiction Stories of H.G. Wells

1984
The Man With the Nose and Other Uncollected Short Stories

NOVELS

1895
The Time Machine: An Invention

The Wonderful Visit

1896
The Island of Dr Moreau

The Wheels of Chance

1897
The Invisible Man

1898
The War of the Worlds

1899
When the Sleeper Awakes

1900
Love and Mr Lewisham

1901
The First Men in the Moon

1902
The Sea Lady

1904
The Food of the Gods, and How it Came to Earth

The Country of the Blind

1905
Kipps

A Modern Utopia

1906
In the Days of the Comet

1908
The War in the Air, and Particularly How Mr Bert Smallways Fared While it Lasted

1909
Tono-Bungay

Ann Veronica

1910
The History of Mr Polly

The New Machiavelli

1914
The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind

1915
Bealby: A Holiday

The Research Magnificent

1916
Mr Britling Sees It Through

1917
The Soul of a Bishop

1919
The Undying Fire

1923
Men Like Gods

1924
The Dream

1925
Christina Alberta's Father

1926
The World of William Clissold (3 volumes)

1928
Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island

1930
The Autocracy of Mr Parham

1932
The Bulpington of Blup

1933
The Shape of Things to Come

1936
The Croquet Player: A Story (chapbook)

1937
The Camford Visitation (chapbook)

Star Begotten: A Biological Fantasia

1939
The Holy Terror

1940
All Aboard For Ararat

1941
You Can't Be Too Careful: A Sample of Life 1901 - 1951

NOVEL COLLECTIONS

1924 - 1927
The Works of H.G. Wells (26 volumes)

1933
The Scientific Romances of H.G. Wells

1934
Seven Famous Novels

1950
Seven Science Fiction Novels

ESSAYS AND ARTICLES

1888
The Chronic Argonauts (in The Science Schools Journal)

1891
The Rediscovery of the Unique

1893
The Man of the Year Million

The Advent of the Flying Man

An Excursion to the Sun

The Living Things That May Be

The Extinction of Man

1902
The Discovery of the Future (chapbook)

1945
Mind at the End of its Tether (chapbook)

COLLECTIONS OF ESSAYS AND ARTICLES

1901
Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Human Progress Upon Human Life and Thought

1975
H.G. Wells: Early Writings in Science and Science Fiction (ed. Robert M. Philmus and David Y. Hughes)

NON-FICTION

1903
Mankind in the Making

1908
New Worlds For Old

1914
The War That Will End War

1917
God the Invisible King

1920
The Outline of History

1921
The Salvaging of Civilization

1922
A Short History of the World

1928
The Way the World Is Going: Guesses and Forecasts of the World Ahead

The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints For a World Revolution

1930
The Science of Life (with Julian Huxley and G.P. Wells)

1931
The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (2 volumes)

1934
Experiment in Autobiography: Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1866) (2 volumes)

1936
The Anatomy of Frustration: A Modern Synthesis

1938
World Brain

1939
The Fate of Homo Sapiens

The New World Order

1942
Phoenix

The Conquest of Time

1945
The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life (chapbook)

1964
Journalism and Prophecy 1893 - 1946 edited by W, Warren Wagar

1984
H.G. Wells in Love: Postscript to an Experiment in Autobiography

FILM SCRIPTS

1929
The King Who Was a King (unmade)

1935
Things To Come

1936
The Man Who Could Work Miracles

FILM SCRIPT COLLECTIONS

1940
Two Film Stories: Things To Come; The Man Who Could Work Miracles

CRITICAL WORKS ABOUT WELLS

1961
The Early H.G. Wells: A Study of the Scientific Romances by Bernard Bergonzi

H.G. Wells and the World State by W. Warren Wagar

1972
H.G. Wells: The Critical Heritage edited by Patrick Parrinder

1976
H.G. Wells: A Collection of Critical Essays edited by Bernard Bergonzi

1977
The Time Machine / The War of the Worlds: A Critical Edition edited by Frank D. McConnell

H.G. Wells and Modern Science Fiction edited by Darko Suvin and Robert M. Philmus

1981
The Science Fiction of H.G. Wells by Frank McConnell

1982
The Logic of Fantasy: H.G. Wells and Science Fiction by John Huntington

H.G. Wells and the Culminating Ape: Biological Themes and Imaginative Obsessions by Peter Kemp

1986
H.G. Wells: A Comprehensive Bibliography

1987
The Definitive Time Machine: A Critical Edition edited by Harry M. Geduld

1990
H.G. Wells Under Revision: Proceedings of the H.G. Wells International Symposium, London, July 1986 edited by Patrick Parrinder and Christopher Rolfe

BIOGRAPHIES

1963
The Life and Thought of H.G. Wells by Julius Kagarlitski

1969
H.G.Wells: His Turbulent Life and Times by Lovat Dickson

1970
H.G. Wells by Patrick Parrinder

1973
H.G.Wells: A Biography (aka: The Time Traveller: The Life of H.G. Wells) by Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie

H.G. Wells: Critic of Progress by Jack Williamson

1984
Aspects of a Life by Anthony West

1986
H.G. Wells: Desperately Mortal - A Biography by David C. Smithe

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009