Who Is H. G. Wells Present To The Future?

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From the Present to the Future H. G. Wells born Herbert George Wells (September 21 1866- August 13 1946) was a English writer best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often referred to as the father of science fiction. Some of his most notable works include “The Time Machine”, “The Invisible Man”, and “The war of the worlds”. At the beginning of WWI, his works became increasingly political. He was the fourth and last child of Joseph Wells a former domestic gardener, and at the time a shopkeeper and professional cricketer, and his mother Sarah Neal, a former domestic servant. A family inheritance allowed them to acquire a failing shop in which they sold china and sporting goods. When Wells was younger, he got into an …show more content…

The Traveler escapes when a small fire he left behind to distract the Morlocks catches up to them as a forest fire; Weena and the pursuing Morlocks are lost in the fire. The Traveler devastated by his loss returns to the tomb to see the Morlocks has set the time machine in the tomb entrance as bait. Confronted by Morlock as he enters the tomb, he quickly enters the time machine and reattaches the levers; he then travels some 30 million years from his original time period into the future. There he witness as some of the last things on earth begin to die. He continues in short jumps through time seeing earth rotation gradually cease and the sun grow larger, redder, and dimmer, the world eventually falls silent and freezes over as the last degenerate living things die out. Overwhelmed, he returns back to Victorian time, arriving at his laboratory just three hours after he originally left. Interrupting the usual dinner, he relates his unbelievable experiences to his disbelieving guess, producing as evidence two white flowers Weena had put in his pocket. The next day his fellow scientist come over and see him preparing for yet another journey through time, which he said he would return from within a short amount of time. After three years of waiting his friend reveals the time traveler has never