H. G. Wells, was an English writer most famous in our days for his science fiction novels that he published in sixteen years beginning with 1895: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, When the Sleeper Wakes, and The First Men in the Moon.

He was a very good writer and produced works in many genres (fiction of non-fiction), his work containing novels, history, and also social commentary.

H.G. Wells was an outspoken socialist and a pacifist, his later writing becoming increasingly political and didactic.

He and Jules Verne are each sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction".

H.G. dated Paulette Goddard.

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	1946 deaths
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Category: Writers  - ( Writers Archive)

Date Added: 21 May '08

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