The Hallmark Channel's first show was a forgotten sci-fi series about H G Wells

While we don't typically associate the Hallmark Channel with science fiction, at one point the network took a serious look back at the origins of the genre.
Wall Street Journal

‘The Young H.G. Wells’ Review: The Original Futurist

Does anyone read H.G. Wells anymore? The question has been asked periodically since his death in 1946, and the answer is invariably a qualified yes. Of Wells’s more than 100 books, his best known ...

Unamuno and H. G. Wells went to the cinema together: unpublished letter confirms it 90 years on

Written in 1936 and found in the archive of Salamanca’s Casa-Museo Unamuno, the document confirms the Spanish writer dined with the author of 'The War of the Worlds' before going to the cinema ...
nytimes.com

How H.G. Wells Predicted the 20th Century

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Charles Johnson THE YOUNG H. G. WELLS Changing the World By Claire Tomalin Toward the end of ...
TV Guide

The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells foresaw the future in such visionary novels as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds. On a night in London in 1946, newspaper reporter Ellen McGillivray arrives at the home of ...
RealClearScience

H.G. Wells vs. George Orwell: A Scientific Debate for the Ages

In the midst of contemporary science’s stunning discoveries and innovations – for example, 2017 alone brought the editing of a human embryo’s genes, the location of an eighth continent under the ocean ...
Ars Technica

H.G. Wells’ “World Brain” is now here—what have we learned since?

Between November 1936 and November 1937, H.G. Wells gave a series of lectures in Great Britain, France, and the US about the world’s impending problems and how to solve them. The lectures were first ...
Washington Post

H.G. Wells wanted to change the world. A new book explores the author’s outsize ambitions

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 ...
The New Republic

H.G. Wells, the Rational Escapist

This outlook had no abler, nor more prominent, exponent than H.G. Wells, whose curiosity, unpretentious background, training as a science teacher, and rapid literary production made him famous in the ...
JSTOR

H.G. Wells’s Letters to Cora Crane

Welcome to our series that brings you original content from individuals in the news. We’re calling it “Verbatim” because these posts will let the authors speak for themselves. Here, H.G. Wells writes ...
TV Guide

The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells foresaw the future in such visionary novels as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds. On a night in London in 1946, newspaper reporter Ellen McGillivray arrives at the home of ...