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H. G. Wells AKA Herbert George Wells


England    1866 – 1946

Comments: newspaper reporter turned political '''author''' and satirist; socialist, after WWI, pacifist; Women's Rights, male Suffragette; the World State; Eugenics; anti -Zionist ; supported then disappointed with the League of Nations; early Science Fiction; Gothic horror; Suggested a "New World Order" of centralized power to  prevent more World Wars; friends with the Bloomsbury writers;


Teachers: [[Edgar Allan Poe]]; [[Thomas Henry Huxley]]; Jules Verne; [[Charles Darwin]]; [[William Morris]]; Francis Galton; Rev. Timothy Harley; [[Adam Weishaupt]]; 

Students: [[William Hope Hodgson]]; Hugo Gernsback; [[E. J. Gold]]; [[L. Ron Hubbard]]; A. A. Milne of Winnie the Pooh; Orson Welles, radio and movie actor/ director, no relation; José Figueres Ferrer ; [[C. S. Lewis]];  President George H.W. Bush; 

Friends:[[George Bernard Shaw]]; Sigmund [[Freud]]; Margaret Sanger, Suffragette ; Elizabeth von Arnim, novelist; Amber Reeves; Rebecca West, author; cousin and wife Isabel Mary Wells; Virginia Woolf; David "Bunny" Garnett; Angelica Bell Garnett;  Vita Sackville West ;  Dora Carrington; Lytton Strachey ; Duncan Grant; Clive Bell; Vanessa  Bell; Stephen Crane, author;

Enemies: G. K. Chesterton;  John Birch Society; Fred, David and Charles Koch, it's supporters; 

Organizations: The Fabian Society; 

Author: The '''War of the Worlds'''; The Time Machine AKA The Chronic Argonauts (1888); The Invisible Man; The Island of Doctor Moreau; Kipps; The History of Mr Polly; Experiment in Autobiography (1934); Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought (1901); When the Sleeper Wakes; The First Men in the Moon; Tono-Bungay; "The Country of the Blind" (1904); The World Set Free (1914); three-volume work, The Outline of History (1920); A Short History of the World; The Science of Life (1930) ;The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1931); A Modern Utopia (1905); In the Days of the Comet (1906); The Shape of Things to Come (1933); The Autocracy of Mr Parham (1930); The Holy Terror (1939); Star-begotten (1937); The Croquet Player (1936); Food of the Gods; Ugh-Lomi and the Cave Bear; Men Like Gods (1923);A Man of Parts; God the Invisible King; The War in the Air; The New World Order (1940);  created the 1st War Games, Floor Games (1911)and Little Wars (1913); The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints For a World Revolution -  What Are We To Do With Our Lives?, 1933; 




Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells;  read him here - http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/w#a30 and here - http://www.gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-n-z.html#letterW ; or save your eyes and listen here - http://librivox.org/author/146 ; http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/05/the-evolution-of-the-new-world-order.html ; http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/10/house-of-cads-growing-up-amid-the-weirdness-of-bloomsbury.html ;