Herbert George Wells

Herbert George Wells adalah seorang novelis, jurnalis, sosiolog, sekaligus sejarawan berkebangsaan Inggris. Dia lahir di Bromley, Kent, Inggris pada tanggal 21 September tahun 1866 dan meninggal saat 13 Agustus 1946 di London. Dia terkenal karena novel fiksinya, seperti The Time Machine dan The War of the Worlds, kemudian komik yang dibuatnya, antara lain Tono-Bungay dan The History of Mr. Polly. Bersama dengan Jules Verne, Wells disebut sebagai "Bapak Fiksi Ilmiah".

Dia dibesarkan oleh keluarga yang miskin. Lalu saat usianya mencapai 14 tahun, dia bekerja pada pedagang kain di Windsor, namun dia segera dipecat oleh tuannya. Kemudian menjadi asisten seorang ahli kimia, bekerja pada pedangan kain lagi, sampai akhirnya ketika tahun 1883, dia menjadi penjaga pintu di Midhurst Grammar School. Selanjutnya saat umurnya 18, Wells memperoleh beasiswa untuk belajar biologi di Normal School of Science (kemudian disebut Royal College) di Kensington selatan, London. Wells lulus dari London University tahun 1888.

Referensi

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

 , pre-1923.
 Works by H. G. Wells at Project Gutenberg Australia, post-1923.
 Works by H. G. Wells in free audio format from LibriVox.
 Works by H. G. Wells at Internet Archive (scanned books original editions color illustrated)
 
 A Short History of the World, at bartleby.com.
 Works by H. G. Wells  to read online at ReadmeFree.

Sources—letters, essays and interviews
 Film interview with H.G. Wells 
 "Stephen Crane. From an English Standpoint" , by Wells, 1900.
 Rabindranath Tagore: In conversation with H. G. Wells . Rabindranath Tagore and Wells conversing in Geneva in 1930.
 "Introduction" , to W. N. P. Barbellion's The Journal of a Disappointed Man, by Wells, 1919.
 "Woman and Primitive Culture", by Wells, 1895.
 Letter , to M. P. Shiel, by Wells, 1937.
 New Statesman – In the footsteps of H G Wells at 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 by Roman Allemann (2000).
 "H. G. Wells". In Encyclopædia Britannica Online.

Critical essays
 "An Appreciation of H. G. Wells", by Mary Austin, 1911.
 "Socialism and the Family" (1906) by Belfort Bax, Part 1, Part 2.
 "H. G. Wells warned us how it would feel to fight a War of the Worlds" , by Niall Ferguson, in The Telegraph, 24 June 2005.
 "H. G. Wells's Idea of a World Brain: A Critical Re-assessment" , by W. Boyd Rayward, in Journal of the American Society for Information Science 50 (15 May 1999): 557–579
 "Mr H. G. Wells and the Giants", by G. K. Chesterton, from his book Heretics (1908).
 "The Internet: a world brain?", by Martin Gardner, in Skeptical Inquirer, Jan–Feb 1999.
 "Science Fiction: The Shape of Things to Come" , by Mark Bould, in The Socialist Review, May 2005.
 "Who needs Utopia? A dialogue with my utopian self (with apologies, and thanks, to H. G. Wells)", by Gregory Claeys in Spaces of Utopia: An Electronic Journal, no 1, Spring 2006.
 "When H. G. Wells Split the Atom: A 1914 Preview of 1945", by Freda Kirchwey, in The Nation, posted 4 September 2003 (original 18 August 1945 issue).
 "Wells, Hitler and the World State", by George Orwell. First published: Horizon. GB, London. August 1941.
 "War of the Worldviews", by John J. Miller, in The Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal, 21 June 2005.
 "Wells's Autobiography", by John Hart, from New International, Vol.2 No.2, March 1935, pp. 75–76
 "History in the Science Fiction of H. G. Wells" , by Patrick Parrinder, Cycnos, 22.2 (2006).
 "FROM THE WORLD BRAIN TO THE WORLDWIDE WEB" , by Martin Campbell-Kelly, Gresham College Lecture, 9 November 2006.
 "The Beginning of Wisdom: On Reading H. G. Wells" , by Vivian Gornick, "Boston Review", 31.1 (2007).
 John Hammond, The Complete List of Short Stories of H. G. Wells 
 Website examining the legacy of The War Of The Worlds
 "H.G. Wells Predictions Ring True, 143 Years Later" at National Geographic

H.G. Wells
Novelis Inggris
Penulis fiksi ilmiah Inggris
Penulis cerita pendek Inggris