His deep interest in human society is present as well in the early romances: not just in The Time Machine (often considered his finest work) but also in other gripping tales of his that helped establish the modern genre of science fiction.
Science, society, and the idea of progress. The late Victorian era (c. 1875-1900) was a time in which science and scientific ideas acquired an unprecedented importance in British society at large. As the first popular British author with a formal education in science, H. G. Wells had received the training that enabled him to reflect the public’s new regard for science. He obtained his degree in biology from London University in 1890, but it was his earlier studies under Thomas Henry Huxley that made the deepest impression on him. Like his famous teacher, Wells would become a leading popularizer of scientific ideas. Huxley, a brilliant debater and public speaker, was a biologist, and the most influential single idea in all of late-nineteenth-century Western culture had come straight from biology: Charles Darwin’s controversial theory of evolution.
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