MUSEUM OF MODERN MYTHOLOGY AND POP CULTURE

H. G. WELLS

1866-1946. Born in Bromley, a suburban town in south-east London, Wells was a prolific author in many genres, though he is most famous for his science fiction works. Wells earned a scholarship to the Normal School of Science and studied biology under Thomas Henry Huxley. Later, he helped establish the Royal College of Science Association, becoming its first president in 1909. His first futuristic non-fiction bestseller predicted trains and automobiles that would disperse people from cities to suburbs; greater sexual freedom; the defeat of Germany's military; and a European Union. His famed science fiction novels include: The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), The Sleeper Wakes (serialized 1898-1899 under the title When the Sleeper Wakes and republished 1910), The First Men in the Moon (1901), and The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904).

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