BDSbook presents essays and papers on (mostly) scientific topics - past, present, and future. BDSbook is written and compiled by B.D. Sommerville (B.Sc. M.Phil.) in Sydney, Australia. Email:
Writing on H.G. Wells
Posted by bdsbook on July 2, 2009
The English writer and journalist H.G. Wells (1866-1946) authored many works, including early science fiction, futurist prophecies, social novels, a declaration of human rights, and educational works in biology, economics, and history. He was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, whose ideas on world government remain relevant and prescient today.
These pages present the results of research I conducted in the early 1990s on the relations of science and literature in the late 19th century. The research examined Wells’s early science journalism, his scientific romances The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau, as well as the essays of T.H. Huxley.
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