Born on September 21, 1866, in Bromley, England, Herbert George Wells was born. Today, he is best known as H.G. Wells. His family was always worried about his health and they had dread that he might die at quite a young age, like his older sister had. At age seven, he was bedridden from an accident for several months. He passed the time during those months by reading book after book. From Washington Irving, to Charles Dickens. Fast forward some years. Wells devoted his time to writing. In college he had written and published a small story called “The Chronic Argonauts.” This foreshadowed his works and career later in his life. His success in literature happened, pretty much, overnight with his novel published in 1895, “The Time Machine.” The …show more content…
He wakes up to a completely new London, and he has apparently become the richest man in the world, thanks to compound interest. But the future isn’t what it seems. It’s actually a very horrible place to live in. “The First Men in the Moon,” (1901) H.G. Wells had made this futuristic science fiction novel about two men that go to the moon, one businessman (Mr. Bedford), and one eccentric scientist (Mr. Cavor). But when they reach the moon they see that the moon is actually inhabited by insect-like beings that they call “Selenites.” “The Shape of Things to Come,” (1933) this plot revolves around the events that happen from the year 1933 all the way to 2106. Really, its take alternate histories and forms this story on “what …show more content…
Nine H.G. Wells Quotes: “We were making the future,” he said, “and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!” “The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.” “Great and little cannot understand one another. But in every child born man, Father Redwood, lurks some seed of goodness- waiting for the Food.” “Nothing could have been more to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it.” “A man who can look me in the face, laugh with me, speak truth and deal fairly, is my brother, though his skin is as black as ink or as yellow as an evening primrose.” “There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.” “I seek, in fiction, to advance ideas and naturally I repeat the ideas in which I believe.” “Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” “Advertising is legalized