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Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography, and autobiography, and even including two books on recreational war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback.

During his own lifetime, however, he was most prominent as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. A futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and 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. Brian Aldiss referred to Wells as the "Shakespeare of science fiction". Wells rendered his works convincing by instilling commonplace detail alongside a single extraordinary assumption – dubbed “Wells’s law” – leading Joseph Conrad to hail him in 1898 as "O Realist of the Fantastic!". His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898) and the military science fiction The War in the Air (1907). Wells was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.

Wells's earliest specialised training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a specifically and fundamentally Darwinian context. He was also from an early date an outspoken socialist, often (but not always, as at the beginning of the First World War) sympathising with pacifist views. His later works became increasingly political and didactic, and he wrote little science fiction, while he sometimes indicated on official documents that his profession was that of journalist. Novels such as Kipps and The History of Mr Polly, which describe lower-middle-class life, led to the suggestion that he was a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay (1909), a diagnosis of English society as a whole. Wells was a diabetic and co-founded the charity The Diabetic Association (known today as Diabetes UK) in 1934.

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Ilmasota: Tulevaisuuden kuvaus

Pienen englantilaislähiön kasvatti Bert Smallways päätyy sattuman oikusta kuumailmapallolennolle Saksan armeijan salaiseen lentotukikohtaan, jossa hän tekeytyy lentokonesuunnittelijaksi ja joutuu osaksi Saksan hyökkäysoperaatioita. Seuraa maailmanlaajuinen sodankäynti, joka vie Bertin lukuisille taistelutantereille ja vaikuttaa sotaa ihannoineen nuoren miehen ajatuksiin.

H.G. Wellsin vuonna 1908 ilmestynyt romaani oli aikaansa edellä kuvatessaan ilmasodankäyntiä sekä modernia lentokoneteollisuutta, jota nähtiin vastaavassa mittakaavassa vasta toisen maailmansodan taisteluissa, liki 30 vuotta myöhemmin.
Herbert George "H.G" Wells (1866–1946) oli aikansa kuuluisimpia englantilaisia kirjailijoita ja tuli tunnetuksi tieteisromaaneistaan ja historiateoksistaan. Kirjoituksissaan Wells pyrki ennustamaan ihmiskunnan tulevaisuutta. Hänen teoksistaan erityisesti Aikakone, Maailmojen sota ja Tohtori Moreaun saari ovat nousseet tieteisromaanien klassikoiksi.
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Publish date30 Oct 2020
Published bySAGA Egmont
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ISBN epub9788726314618