H G Wells

The prolific science fiction writings of the English writer, Herbert George Wells, (1866–1946) firmly establishes him as “The Father of Science Fiction”. Yet H G Wells was also recognised as a successful novelist and was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature four times. His publication of fiction and non fiction books lasted over sixty years with the production of over a hundred books, fifty of them being novels. His most well known titles of The Time Machine (1895) The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man ( (1897) and The War of the Worlds (1898) remain highly popular today.

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