H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells (1866 – 1946) was a writer and futurist. He is often called the "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne.

His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds.

A futurist and “visionary”, Wells foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web. His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering. He anticipated wars in the air, the sexual revolution, motorized transport causing the growth of suburbs, and a proto-Wikipedia he called the "world brain". In his 1913 novel The World Set Free, he imagined an “atomic bomb” of terrifying power that would be dropped from aeroplanes.