Bibliography Etc. on H. G. Wells
(1866-1946)


- 1895 The Time Machine (Scientific Romance)
- The Wonderful Visit
- The Stolen Bacillus (SS) (Scientific Romance)
- 1896 The Island of Dr. Moreau (Scientific Romance)
- 1897 The Invisible Man (Scientific Romance)
- 1898 The War of the Worlds (Serialized 1996-7; Broadcast by Orson Wells Oct. 1938) (Scientific Romance)
- Tales of Space and Time (SS) (Scientific Romance)
- 1899 When the Sleeper Wakes (Utopia/Dystopia) --Man awakes in 2100; his money has accumulated interest until he owns most of the world
- 1901The First Men in the Moon (Utopia/Dystopia) --Antigravity and life on the moon
- Anticipations of the Reactions of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought (Non-Fict)
- The Discovery of the Future (Non-Fict)
- 1902 The Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine (Fantasy)
- 1903 Mankind in the Making (Non-Fict)
- 1904 The Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth (Utopia/Dystopia) -- New food cause people to grow to giant size, but is popular resistance to growth
- 1905 A Modern Utopia(Utopia/Dystopia)
- 1906 In the Days of the Comet(Utopia/Dystopia) -- Mysterious gases of passing comet cause moral regeneration of the world
- The Future in America (Non-Fict)
- 1908 The War in the Air(Utopia/Dystopia) -- Foretells the use of airplanes to bomb targets on the ground
- 1911 The Country of the Blind (SS) (Scientific Romance)
- The Door in the Wall (SS)
- 1914 The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind (Utopia/Dystopia) --Atomic bombs followed by chaos followed by rational society
- The War That Will End War (Non-Fict)
- 1920 The Outline of History (Non-Fict)
- 1923 Men Like Gods(Utopia/Dystopia) -- Time-travel to a future utopia
- 1933 The Shape of Things to Come (Utopia/Dystopia) (Wells wrote film scenario for 1935 movie) Fictional continuation of world history to 2016; including war, period of anti-scientism, final rational end
- 1937 Star-Begotten: A Biological Fantasia (Utopia/Dystopia) -- novel, science fiction, utopia, genetic engineering, posthuman, future "A time when men will resist the established order... A time when men will no longer fight wars... A time of compromise and consolidation... A time of peace... "Such is the future H.G.Wells predicts for humanity -- a new life for new men begotten by an unseen race beyond the stars. And this Utopia is preceded by a period of chaotic transition, amazingly like the headlines of today". [jacket blurb, UK, 1975] <http://euro.net/mark-space/HGWells.html>
- Bergonzi, Bernard. "The Time Machine: An Ironic Myth." (1960) Rpt. in H.G. Wells: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Bernard Bergonzi. (Twentieth Century Views) Prentice-Hall, 1976.
- Huntington, John. Chapter 3 of The Logic of Fantasy: H.G. Wells and Science Fiction. NY: Columbia UP, 1982
- Philmus, Robert M. "The Logic of 'Prophecy' in The Time Machine." (1969) Rpt. in H.G. Wells: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Bernard Bergonzi. (Twentieth Century Views) Prentice-Hall, 1976.
- Roberts, Robin. pp. 32-37 in A New Species: Gender and Science in Science Fiction. Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1993.



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