Jan 6, 2010
Beginning with The Time Machine: An Invention (1895) and ending with The War in the Air, and Particularly How Mr. Bert Smallways Fared While It Lasted (1908), H. G. Wells wrote nine fantastic, often futuristic novels, which he called scientific romances. Works like The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), and The First Men in the Moon (1901), which now fall under the rubric of science fiction, earned Wells the informal place that he shares with Jules Verne as a cofounder of that genre....
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