HG Wells : The Father of Science Fiction

HG Wells an English author/ writer in the science fiction genre. Herbert George Wells was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary. Together with Jules Verne, HG Wells has been referred to as “The Father of Science Fiction”. HG Wells lead his life as a Novelist, Teacher, Historian and Journalist.

Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an outspoken socialist and sympathetic to pacifist views, although he supported the First World War once it was under way, and his later works became increasingly political and didactic. His middle period novels (1900–1920) were covered lower-middle class life (The History of Mr Polly) and the ‘New Woman’ and the Suffragettes (Ann Veronica).

The rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard was inspired by H. G. Wells’s fiction from an early age to work on rocketry, and this research led German scientists to later develop the V2, which in turn led to the American Apollo program that landed man on the Moon.

HG Wells  mainly focuses on Genres of Science fiction and his notable works are The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, The Shape of Things to Come