A 47-year-old sci-fi film shot on the streets of SF is getting a second look

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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 ...
The Spokesman-Review

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

H.G. Wells’ alien-invasion novel is night-before-Halloween scary. But it’s a lot more too

The invasion began 125 years ago, got reinforcements on the night before Halloween in 1938 and still occupies cultural territory in the 21st century. In 1898, H.G. Wells published “The War of 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 ...
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 ...
The New York Times

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 ...