H G Wells

Background

• THE TIME MACHINE, 1960, dir. George Pal :
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• THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU, 1932, dir. Erle C. Kenton; film 1977, dir. Don Taylor; film 1996, dir. John Frankenheimer
• THE INVISIBLE MAN, 1934, dir. James Whale
• THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, 1953, dir. Byron Haskin
• KIPPS: THE STORY OF A SIMPLE SOUL, 1941, dir. Carol Reed
• THE HISTORY OF MR. POLLY, 1948, dir. Anthony Pelissier
• INDEPENDENCE DAY, 1996, dir. Roland Emmerich: follows plot of War of The Worlds

H G Wells’ ideas – particularly in The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds – have been 'developed' by some modern science fiction writers: The Sirens of Titan (1959) by Kurt Vonnegut, The Second Martian Invasion (1966) by A & B Strugatsky, The Space Machine (1976) by Christopher Priest and The Time Ships (1996) by Stephen Baxter.