H.G Wells

Hubert George Wells was born in Bromley , United Kingdom in 1866 to a working class family and died in 1946. He was interested in science from a young age and earned a scholarship to the Normal School of Science where he studied biology under T.H Huxley , who was an advocate of Charles Darwin s theory of evolution. The first book that Wells published was actually a biology textbook. Later he went on and published multiple science fiction novels that where very influential to the development if science fiction. Wells was one of the most famous science fiction authors of this time period. His first science fiction novel was the Time Machine , published in 1895, which became wildly popular for exploring social class and evolution. His other famous works include The War of the Worlds , The Invisible Man, and The Island of Doctor Moreau.