Herbert George Wells (21 september 1866 - 13 augustus 1946) was een Engelse schrijver. Zijn beroemdste romans zijn ’The War of the Worlds’, ‘The Time Machine’ en The Invisible Man’.
Wells was productief in vele genres en schreef meer dan vijftig romans en tientallen korte verhalen. Zijn non-fictie productie omvatte werken op het gebied van sociaal commentaar, politiek, geschiedenis, populaire wetenschap, satire, biografie en autobiografie.
De sciencefictionromans van Wells staan zo hoog aangeschreven dat hij wel "The Father of Science Fiction" wordt genoemd (samen met Jules Verne en Hugo Gernsback).
Romans:
The Time Machine (1895). Fragments from the serial form in The New Review which were generally excluded in the book version can be found in the anthology edited by Robert M. Philmus, 1975, as can the untitled version published in seven instalments in the National Observer 17 March – 23 June 1894.
The Wonderful Visit (1895)
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)
The Wheels of Chance (1896)
The Invisible Man (1897)
The War of the Worlds (1898)
When the Sleeper Wakes (1899)
Love and Mr Lewisham (1900)
The First Men in the Moon (1901)
The Sea Lady (1902)
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904)
Kipps (1905)
A Modern Utopia (1905)
In the Days of the Comet (1906)
The War in the Air (1908)
Tono-Bungay (1909)
Ann Veronica (1909)
The History of Mr Polly (1910)
The Sleeper Awakes (1910) – revised edition of When the Sleeper Wakes (1899)
The New Machiavelli (1911)
Marriage (1912)
The Passionate Friends (1913)
The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914)
The World Set Free (1914)
Bealby: A Holiday (1915)
Boon (1915) (as Reginald Bliss)
The Research Magnificent (1915)
Mr Britling Sees It Through (1916)
The Soul of a Bishop (1917)
Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education (1918)
The Undying Fire (1919)
The Secret Places of the Heart (1922)
Men Like Gods (1923)
The Dream (1924)
Christina Alberta's Father (1925)
The World of William Clissold (1926)
Meanwhile (1927)
Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island (1928)
The Autocracy of Mr. Parham (1930)
The Bulpington of Blup (1932)
The Shape of Things to Come (1933)
The Croquet Player (1936)
Brynhild (1937)
Star Begotten (1937)
The Camford Visitation (1937), novella
Apropos of Dolores (1938)
The Brothers (1938)
The Holy Terror (1939)
Babes in the Darkling Wood (1940)
All Aboard for Ararat (1940)
You Can't Be Too Careful (1941)
Korte verhalen:
"A Tale of the Twentieth Century" (Science Schools Journal, no. 6, May 1887) – signed S.B. for Septimus Browne[2]
"A Talk with Gryllotalpa" (Science Schools Journal, no. 3, February 1887) – published under the pseudonym Septimus Browne[2]
"A Vision of the Past" (Science Schools Journal, no. 7, June 1887) – signed S.S. for "Sosthenes Smith" [2][3]
"The Chronic Argonauts" (a.k.a. "Chronic Argonaut", a.k.a. "The Chronic Argonaughts") (Science Schools Journal, nos. 17–19, April–June 1888), novelette – the earliest version of The Time Machine.[4]
"The Devotee of Art" (Science Schools Journal, nos. 24–25, Nov.–Dec. 1888)
"Æpyornis Island" (Pall Mall Budget, 13 December 1894)
"A Deal in Ostriches" (Pall Mall Gazette, 20 December 1894)
"A Family Elopement" (The St. James's Gazette, 3 March 1894)
"A Misunderstood Artist" (Pall Mall Gazette, 29 October 1894)
"How Gabriel Became Thompson" (Truth, 26 July 1894)
"In the Avu Observatory" (Pall Mall Budget, 9 August 1894)
"In the Modern Vein" (a.k.a. "In the Modern Vein: An Unsympathetic Love Story", a.k.a. "A Bardlet's Romance") (Truth, 8 March 1894)
"The Diamond Maker" (Pall Mall Budget, 16 August 1894)
"The Flowering of the Strange Orchid" (a.k.a. "The Strange Orchid") (Pall Mall Budget, 2 August 1894)
"The Hammerpond Park Burglary" (Pall Mall Budget, 5 July 1894)
"The Jilting of Jane" (Pall Mall Budget, 12 July 1894)
"The Lord of the Dynamos" (Pall Mall Budget, 6 September 1894)
"The Man With a Nose" (Pall Mall Gazette, 6 Feb. 1894)
"The Stolen Bacillus" (Pall Mall Budget, 21 June 1894)
"The Thing in No. 7" (Pall Mall Budget, 25 October 1894)
"The Thumbmark" (Pall Mall Budget, 28 June 1894)
"The Treasure in the Forest" (Pall Mall Budget, 23 August 1894)
"The Triumphs of a Taxidermist" (Pall Mall Gazette, 3–15 March 1894)
"Through a Window" (a.k.a. "At a Window") (Black and White, 25 August 1894)
"A Catastrophe" (New Budget, 4 April 1895)
"How Pingwill Was Routed" (New Budget, 27 June 1895)
"Le Mari Terrible" (New Budget, 23 May 1895)
"Our Little Neighbour" (New Budget, 4 April 1895)
"Pollock and the Porroh Man" (New Budget, 23 May 1895)
"The Argonauts of the Air" (The Phil May's Annual, December 1895)
"The Cone" (Unicorn, 18 September 1895)
"The Flying Man" (Pall Mall Gazette, 4 January 1895)
"The Moth" (a.k.a. "A Moth – Genus Novo") (Pall Mall Gazette, 28 March 1895)
"The Reconciliation" (a.k.a. "The Bulla") (The Weekly Sun Literary Supplement, 1 December 1895)
"The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes" (a.k.a. "The Story of Davidson's Eyes") (Pall Mall Budget, 28 March 1895)
"The Sad Story of a Dramatic Critic" (a.k.a. "The Obliterated Man") (New Budget, 15 August 1895)
"The Temptation of Harringay" (The St. James's Gazette, 9 February 1895)
"Wayde's Essence" (New Budget, 18 April 1895)
"A Slip Under the Microscope" (The Yellow Book, January 1896)
"In the Abyss" (Pearson's Magazine, 1 August 1896)
"The Apple" (The Idler, October 1896)
"The Plattner Story" (The New Review, April 1896)
"The Purple Pileus" (Black and White, December 1896)
"The Rajah's Treasure" (Pearson's Magazine, July 1896)
"The Red Room" (a.k.a. "The Ghost of Fear") (The Idler, March 1896)
"The Sea Raiders" (a.k.a. "The Sea-Raiders") (The Weekly Sun Literary Supplement, 6 December 1896)
"The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham" (The Idler, May 1896)
"Under the Knife" (a.k.a. "Slip Under the Knife") (The New Review, January 1896)
"A Perfect Gentleman on Wheels" (Woman at Home, April 1897)
"A Story of the Stone Age" (a.k.a. "Stories of the Stone Age") (The Idler, May–September 1897), novella
"Mr Marshall's Doppelganger" (Gentlewoman, 18 September 1897)
"The Crystal Egg" (The New Review, May 1897)
"The Lost Inheritance" (The Plattner Story and Others., May 1897)
"The Presence by the Fire" (Penny Illustrated Paper, 14 August 1897)
"The Star" (The Graphic, December 1897)
"Jimmy Goggles the God" (The Graphic, December 1898)
"Miss Winchelsea's Heart" (The Queen, October 1898)
"Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation" (a.k.a. "Mr Ledbetter's Vacation") (The Strand Magazine, October 1898)
"The Man Who Could Work Miracles" (a.k.a. "The Man Who Could Work Miracles: A Pantoum in Prose", a.k.a. "Man Who Could Work Miracles") (Illustrated London News, July 1898)
"The Stolen Body" (The Strand Magazine, November 1898)
"The Stolen Body" was reprinted in Weird Tales in November 1925
"Walcote" (Science Schools Journal, nos. 25–26, Dec. 1898 – Jan. 1899)
"A Story of the Days to Come" (Pall Mall Magazine, June–October 1899), novella
"A Vision of Judgment" (a.k.a. "A Vision of Judgement") (The Butterfly, September 1899)
"Mr. Brisher's Treasure" (a.k.a. "Mr Brisher's Treasure") (The Strand Magazine, April 1899)
"A Dream of Armageddon" (Black and White Budget, 25 May 1901)
"Filmer" (The Graphic, December 1901)
"The New Accelerator" (The Strand Magazine, December 1901)
"The Inexperienced Ghost" (a.k.a. "The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost") (The Strand Magazine, March 1902)
"The Loyalty of Esau Common" (The Contemporary Review, February 1902)
"Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland" (a.k.a. "Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland") (London Magazine, February 1903)
"The Land Ironclads" (The Strand Magazine, December 1903)
"The Magic Shop" (The Strand Magazine, June 1903)
"The Truth About Pyecraft" (The Strand Magazine, April 1903)
"The Valley of Spiders" (The Strand Magazine, March 1903)
"The Country of the Blind" (The Strand Magazine, April 1904; revised, 1939), novelette
"The Empire of the Ants" (a.k.a. "Empire of the Ants") (The Strand Magazine, December 1905)
"The Door in the Wall" (1906)
"The Beautiful Suit" (a.k.a. "A Moonlight Fable") (Collier's Weekly, April 1909)
"Little Mother Up the Mörderberg" (The Strand Magazine, April 1910), Little Mother series #2
"My First Aeroplane" (The Strand Magazine, January 1910), Little Mother series #1
"The Story of the Last Trump" (Boon, 1915)
"The Wild Asses of the Devil" (Boon, 1915)
"Peter Learns Arithmetic" (1918)
"The Invasion from Mars" (1920)
"The Grisly Folk" (Storyteller Magazine, April 1921), essay
"Into the Abyss" (1923)
"The Pearl of Love" (The Strand Magazine, January 1925)
"The Adventures of Tommy" (1928)
"A Woman's Heart" (1931)
"The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper" (The Strand Magazine, February 1932)
"Answer to Prayer" (The New Statesman, 10 April 1937)
"Depouillement - the Door in the Wall" (1953, published posthumously)
"The Desert Daisy" (1957, published posthumously)
"The Haunted Ceiling" (2016, published posthumously)
When the Sleeper Wakes was reprinted in the first issue of Amazing Stories Quarterly in early 1928, under a cover by Frank R. Paul
Wells's works were reprinted in American science fiction magazines as late as the 1950s