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H. G. Wells

English writer (1866–1946)

  • Fame79.9
  • Momentum0.6
  • United Kingdom rank#120
Source-basedFalling
  • Fame79.9
  • Momentum0.6
  • United Kingdom rank#120
  • Writers rank#71
  • Wikipedia98.5K
Lived 1866–1946, aged 80United Kingdom
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  • Wikipedia
    114 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Rank in United Kingdom
    #120
    Writers
  • Era
    1866–1946
    Aged 80
  • Known for
    War of the Worlds
    2025
Summary
Updated 2026-06-08

He invented the future in fiction before it arrived in fact: time machines, alien invasions, invisible men, and wars fought in the air. A biologist by training who turned speculation into story, he planted the tropes that science fiction still mines.

Biography

About

Herbert George Wells was born 21 September 1866 and trained early in biology, a grounding that shaped his Darwinian view of ethics and society. He wrote more than forty novels and dozens of short stories, but the works that secured him were the science fiction he published in a five-year burst: The Time Machine in 1895, The Island of Doctor Moreau in 1896, The Invisible Man in 1897, The War of the Worlds in 1898. He made the impossible feel plausible by anchoring each story in commonplace detail around one fantastic premise—"Wells's law"—earning Joseph Conrad's 1898 tribute: "O Realist of the…

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Sourced, dated quotes from H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells
said
The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.
— The War in the Air (1907), Ch. VIII, §1
H. G. Wells
said
Kipps was unprepared for the unpleasant truth; that the path of social advancement is and must be strewn with broken friendships.
— Kipps the Story of a Simple Soul (1905) Bk. 2, ch. 5
H. G. Wells
said
Great and little cannot understand one another. But in every child born of man, Father Redwood, lurks some seed of greatness — waiting for the Food.
— The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904) - Online PDF and Epub
H. G. Wells
said
They may fight against greatness in us who are the children of men, but can they conquer? Even if they should destroy us every one, what then? Would it save them? No!
— The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904)
H. G. Wells
said
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
— The Discovery of the Future (1901)
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Fame
Falling
79.9
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum0.6
Historical27.5
Now attention4.7
Source confidence65.0
Completeness75.0
Global rank
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Country rank
#120
Category rank
#71
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