Claire Tomalin’s latest biography, “The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World,” is plainly written, packed with incident and justly admiring without being uncritical. In comparison with, say, the ...

H. G. Wells is remembered today mostly as the author of four visionary science-fiction perennials with premises so simple and strong that they can sustain any amount of retelling: “The War of the ...

Herbert George Wells, known primarily as H. G. Wells, was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games ...

“Nobody predicted the 21st century better than H.G. Wells,” said Kathryn Hughes in the Daily Mail. Born “when Queen Victoria was still youngish”, he wrote a series of bestselling page-turners about ...