The War of the Worlds Summary
H. G. Wells

War of the Worlds Broadcast on October 30, 1938, Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre radio dramatization of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds engendered a mass panic in which millions of Americans believed they... Read more

Biography EssayH. G. Wells's earlier works of science fiction have retained their popularity for nearly a century. In recent years they have also won academic regard for integrating the fantastic with... Read more

"The thing the Time Traveller held in his hand was a glittering metallic framework, scarcely larger than a small clock, and very delicately made, There was ivory in it, and some transparent crystallin... Read more

Over a career that spanned five decades, H. G. Wells produced nearly a hundred full-length books, a large portion of them novels and collections of short fiction. In his 1934 autobiography Wells accur... Read more

Fantastic literature has existed as long as literature itself; Renaissance thinkers wrote of utopias and imaginary voyages into space; Jonathan Swift employed the fantastic in Gulliver's Travels (1726... Read more

The tendency and actions of the people, the appearance, alacrity, and the belief of the aliens, the intellectual and curiosity of David Levinsin and the narrator are comparable in War of the Worlds an... Read more