Herbert George Wells

H.G. Wells
Wells tahun 1920
Pekerjaan	Novelis, pengajar, sejarawan, jurnalis
Kebangsaan	British
Genre	Science fiction(notablysocial science fiction)
Karya terkenal	The Time Machine,The Invisible Man,The Island of Doctor Moreau,The War of the Worlds,The First Men in the Moon,The Shape of Things to Come

Herbert George Wellsadalah seorangnovelis,jurnalis,sosiolog,sekaligussejarawanberkebangsaanInggris.Dia lahir diBromley,Kent,Inggrispadatanggal21Septembertahun1866dan meninggal saat13Agustus1946diLondon.Dia terkenal karenanovelfiksinya,sepertiThe Time MachinedanThe War of the Worlds,kemudiankomikyang dibuatnya, antara lainTono-BungaydanThe History of Mr. Polly.Bersama denganJules Verne,Wells disebut sebagai "Bapak Fiksi Ilmiah".

Dia dibesarkan olehkeluargayang miskin.Lalu saat usianya mencapai14tahun, dia bekerja padapedagangkaindiWindsor,namun dia segera dipecat olehtuannya.Kemudian menjadiasistenseorangahlikimia,bekerja pada pedangan kain lagi, sampai akhirnya ketika tahun1883,dia menjadipenjaga pintudiMidhurst Grammar School.Selanjutnya saatumurnya18,Wells memperolehbeasiswauntukbelajarbiologidiNormal School of Science(kemudian disebutRoyal College) diKensingtonselatan,London.Wells lulus dariLondon Universitytahun1888.

Bacaan lanjut

• Dickson, Lovat.H.G. Wells: His Turbulent Life & Times.1969.
• Gilmour, David.The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling.New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002 (paperback,ISBN 0-374-18702-9); 2003 (paperback,ISBN 0-374-52896-9).
• Gomme, A. W.,Mr. Wells as Historian.Glasgow: MacLehose, Jackson, and Co., 1921.
• Gosling, John.Waging the War of the Worlds.Jefferson, North Carolina, McFarland, 2009 (paperback,ISBN 0-7864-4105-4).
• Mauthner, Martin.German Writers in French Exile, 1933–1940,London: Vallentine and Mitchell, 2007,ISBN 978-0-85303-540-4.

Pranala luar

Sources—collections

• Karya H. G. WellsdiProject Gutenberg,pre-1923.
• Works by H. G. WellsatProject Gutenberg Australia,post-1923.
• Works by H. G. Wellsin free audio format fromLibriVox.
• Works by H. G. WellsatInternet Archive(scanned books original editions color illustrated)
• (Inggris)Herbert George WellsdiInternet Speculative Fiction Database
• A Short History of the World,at bartleby.com.
• Works by H. G. WellsDiarsipkan2011-03-25 diWayback Machine.to read online at ReadmeFree.

Sources—letters, essays and interviews

• Film interview with H.G. WellsDiarsipkan2010-08-20 diWayback Machine.
• "Stephen Crane. From an English Standpoint"Diarsipkan2013-11-03 diWayback Machine., by Wells, 1900.
• Rabindranath Tagore: In conversation with H. G. WellsDiarsipkan2000-03-09 diWayback Machine..Rabindranath Tagoreand Wells conversing in Geneva in 1930.
• "Introduction"Diarsipkan2006-09-24 diWayback Machine., toW. N. P. Barbellion'sThe Journal of a Disappointed Man,by Wells, 1919.
• "Woman and Primitive Culture",by Wells, 1895.
• LetterDiarsipkan2011-07-18 diWayback Machine., toM. P. Shiel,by Wells, 1937.
• New Statesman – In the footsteps of H G Wellsat www.newstatesman.com, H.G. Wells called for a Human Rights Act.

Biografi

• H. G. Wells: The Man and the Author.A biography of H. G. Wells byRoman Allemann(2000).
• "H. G. Wells".InEncyclopædia BritannicaOnline.

Critical essays

• "An Appreciation of H. G. Wells",byMary Austin,1911.
• "Socialism and the Family" (1906) byBelfort Bax,Part 1,Part 2.
• "H. G. Wells warned us how it would feel to fight aWar of the Worlds"Diarsipkan2007-03-09 diWayback Machine., byNiall Ferguson,inThe Telegraph,24 June 2005.
• "H. G. Wells's Idea of a World Brain: A Critical Re-assessment"Diarsipkan2006-07-16 diWayback Machine., byW. Boyd Rayward,inJournal of the American Society for Information Science50 (15 May 1999): 557–579
• "Mr H. G. Wells and the Giants",byG. K. Chesterton,from his bookHeretics(1908).
• "The Internet: a world brain?",byMartin Gardner,inSkeptical Inquirer,Jan–Feb 1999.
• "Science Fiction: The Shape of Things to Come"Diarsipkan2006-08-23 diWayback Machine., byMark Bould,inThe Socialist Review,May 2005.
• "Who needs Utopia? A dialogue with my utopian self (with apologies, and thanks, to H. G. Wells)",byGregory ClaeysinSpaces of Utopia: An Electronic Journal,no 1, Spring 2006.
• "When H. G. Wells Split the Atom: A 1914 Preview of 1945",byFreda Kirchwey,inThe Nation,posted 4 September 2003 (original 18 August 1945 issue).
• "Wells, Hitler and the World State",byGeorge Orwell.First published:Horizon.GB, London. August 1941.
• "War of the Worldviews",byJohn J. Miller,inThe Wall Street JournalOpinion Journal, 21 June 2005.
• "Wells's Autobiography",byJohn Hart,fromNew International,Vol.2 No.2, March 1935, pp. 75–76
• "History in the Science Fiction of H. G. Wells"Diarsipkan2006-11-23 diWayback Machine., byPatrick Parrinder,Cycnos,22.2 (2006).
• "FROM THE WORLD BRAIN TO THE WORLDWIDE WEB"Diarsipkan2007-09-28 diWayback Machine., byMartin Campbell-Kelly,Gresham College Lecture, 9 November 2006.
• "The Beginning of Wisdom: On Reading H. G. Wells"Diarsipkan2008-07-05 diWayback Machine., byVivian Gornick,"Boston Review",31.1 (2007).
• John Hammond, The Complete List of Short Stories of H. G. WellsDiarsipkan2001-02-22 diArchive.is
• Website examining the legacy of The War Of The Worlds
• "H.G. Wells Predictions Ring True, 143 Years Later"atNational Geographic