H.G. Wells – late 19th–early 20th-century English writer, author of The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds. A founding figure of science fiction, he foresaw future technologies from tanks to atomic bombs. His works blended scientific ideas, social critique, and utopian visions.
📖 The War of the Worlds inspired Orson Welles’s 1938 radio broadcast that sparked mass panic. ⚙️ First to describe war machines resembling modern tanks. ☢️ In The World Set Free (1914), he predicted the atomic bomb. 🎓 Trained as a biologist under Thomas Huxley. 🌍 His works were translated worldwide, influencing writers like Asimov and Clarke. 🏛️ A socialist, he wrote utopian essays about humanity’s future. ✍️ Produced not only science fiction but also histories and political studies. 😲 Curious fact: set out to write a “universal history” – and completed a multivolume one. 😄 Funny fact: once joked he was “a teacher of dreamers and a failed politician.”