H G Wells

Background

Brian Aldiss

‘It is interesting if you analyse The Time Machine; the machine itself is perfectly impossible... it is the connecting device that allows him to tell you... a love story, an adventure story, a horror story, a history, and within all that a marvellously complex description of the processes of Evolution.’

Stephen Baxter

‘Wells was very agitated about class divisions, he thought this was a terrible thing - and economic divisions, the rich and the poor ... Nobody wins if we keep up this division, the rich become decadent and mindless, and the poor become mindless and animals as well.’ (See Links)

Dr Martin Wells

‘He really is the father of science fiction, because he was the first writer to have had a scientific education.’

Jayne Bryson

‘He opened up the playground and we're able to go in and play with all the different ideas that he introduced ... it's opened so many doors for fiction.’