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H. G. Wells (1866–1946). H. G. Wells was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His writing career spanned more than sixty years, and his early science fiction novels earned him the title (along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback) of "The Father of Science Fiction".
Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography.
Wells conceived of the three parts of his trilogy as, respectively, "a survey of history, of the science of life, and of existing conditions." [ 1 ] Intended as an unprecedented "picture of all mankind to-day" in all its manifold activities, [ 2 ] he called it "the least finished work . . . because it is the most novel."
The World Set Free is a novel written in 1913 and published in 1914 by H. G. Wells. [1] The book is based on a prediction of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort of weapon than the world has yet seen.
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In it, Wells considers the idea of humanity being soon replaced by some other, more advanced, species of being. [1] He bases this thought on his long interest in the paleontological record. At the time of writing Wells had not yet heard of the atomic bomb (but had predicted a form of it in his 1914 book The World Set Free ).