Herbert George Wells was an extraordinary and unique man of British letters, perhaps best known today as a science-fiction writer, but prolific in publishing fiction, history, political and social commentary, and biography.
During his lifetime, however, he was most known for being what today would be termed a ‘futurist’, with his analyses and prognostications. Wells rendered his works convincing by instilling commonplace detail alongside a single extraordinary assumption per work – dubbed “Wells’s law” – leading Joseph Conrad to hail him in 1898 as “O Realist of the Fantastic!”

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