H. G. Wells

Writer, historian, and philosopher H. G. Wells questioned society’s chances for survival in a world in which technological advances outpaced intellectual development. Best remembered for his inventive stories of fantasy, technology, and the future, Wells created such a realistic description of a Martian invasion of England in War of the Worlds (1898) that Orson Welles’s radio version of the book caused an unintended panic among a credulous public in the United States in 1938.

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Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge); Science Fiction

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