The War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells: The Critical Heritage
In the following brief review, an early critic praises Wells’s novel.
Following in the wake of the sciences for half a century is a new species of literary work, which may be called the quasi-scientific novel. From M. Verne’s prophetic submarine boat to Mr. Waterloo’s prehistoric caveman, one could classify a score of romances which try to put into imaginative form the latest results in science and mechanics. Like all literature, too, the new novel is not content with presenting living embodiments of truth, but is fain to make guesses at the future. It is as yet experimental, and is quite too young to have produced an enduring masterpiece. The whole...
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