H.G. Wells

Herbert George Wells, conocido como H.G. Wells, fue un autor inglés nacido el 21 de septiembre de 1866 en Bromley, Kent, Inglaterra. Nació en una familia de clase trabajadora, con su padre siendo jugador de cricket profesional y su madre una doncella de señora. Debido a dificultades financieras familiares, la educación de Wells fue intermitente, la cual incluyó aprendizajes como vendedor de telas y asistente en una farmacia. Sin embargo, recibió una beca del gobierno en 1884 para estudiar biología bajo la tutela de Thomas Henry Huxley en la Escuela Normal de Ciencia. Wells obtuvo su bachillerato en ciencia y doctorado en ciencia en la Universidad de Londres.

H.G. Wells es considerado uno de los padres de la ciencia ficción, junto a Hugo Gernsback y Julio Verne. Sus novelas de ciencia ficción, como "La máquina del tiempo", "La guerra de los mundos", "El hombre invisible" y "La isla del doctor Moreau", son obras pioneras que continúan fascinando a los lectores. Sin embargo, las contribuciones literarias de Wells van mucho más allá de la ciencia ficción. Fue un autor prolífico que escribió en varios géneros, incluyendo política, historia, realismo social y no ficción.

Wells fue socialista y utilizó sus escritos para abogar por sus creencias y causas políticas, como la prevención de la guerra. Sus obras de no ficción, como "Una utopía moderna", "El esbozo de la historia", "Una breve historia del mundo" y "La forma de las cosas por venir", reflejan sus intereses y persecuciones intelectuales amplias. Además de sus contribuciones a la literatura, Wells cofundó La Asociación Diabética, ahora conocida como Diabetes Reino Unido, ya que era diabético él mismo.

A lo largo de su vida, H.G. Wells fue reconocido por sus logros literarios. Fue nominado al Premio Nobel de Literatura en cuatro ocasiones. A pesar de su comienzo convencional en la vida, la curiosidad intelectual de Wells, su creatividad y su promoción del cambio social solidificaron su lugar como uno de los escritores más influyentes de su tiempo.
Novelas independientes
# Título Año
1 The Time Machine 1895
2 The Wonderful Visit 1895
3 The Wheels of Chance 1896
4 The Island of Dr. Moreau 1896
5 The Invisible Man 1897
6 The War of the Worlds 1898
7 When the Sleeper Wakes / The Sleeper Awakes 1899
8 Love and Mr. Lewisham 1899
9 The First Men in the Moon 1901
10 The Sea Lady 1902
11 The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth 1904
12 Kipps 1905
13 A Modern Utopia 1905
14 In the Days of the Comet 1906
15 The War in the Air 1908
16 Tono-Bungay 1909
17 Ann Veronica 1909
18 The History of Mr Polly 1910
19 The Sleeper Awakes 1911
20 The New Machiavelli 1911
21 Marriage 1912
22 The Passionate Friends 1913
23 The World Set Free 1914
24 The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman 1914
25 Bealby: A Holiday 1915
26 The Research Magnificent 1915
27 Boon, the Mind of the Race 1915
28 Boon, the Mind of the Race ( As: Reginald Bliss) 1915
29 Boon 1915
30 Mr. Britling Sees It Through 1916
31 The Soul of a Bishop 1917
32 Joan and Peter: A Story of an Education 1918
33 The Undying Fire 1919
34 The Secret Places of the Heart 1922
35 Men Like Gods 1923
36 The Dream 1924
37 Christina Alberta's Father 1925
38 The World of William Clissold 1926
39 Meanwhile the Picture of a Lady 1927
40 Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island 1928
41 The King Who Was a King 1929
42 Autocracy of Mr. Parham 1930
43 Bulpington of Blup 1930
44 The Shape of Things to Come 1933
45 The Croquet Player 1936
46 Star Begotten 1937
47 The Camford Visitation 1937
48 Brynhild 1937
49 The Brothers 1938
50 Apropos of Dolores 1938
51 The Holy Terror 1939
52 All Aboard for Ararat 1940
53 Babes in the Darkling Wood 1940
54 You Can't Be Too Careful 1941
55 The Wealth of Mr. Waddy 1969
Cuentos cortos/Novelas
# Título Año
1 The Chronic Argonauts / The Chronic Argonaughts 1888
2 The Triumphs of a Taxidermist 1894
3 The Treasure in the Forest 1894
4 The Flowering of the Strange Orchid 1894
5 The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes / The Story of Davidson's Eyes 1895
6 The Plattner Story 1896
7 A Slip Under the Microscope 1896
8 The Star 1897
9 The Sea-Raiders 1897
10 The Crystal Egg 1897
11 A Story Of The Days To Come 1897
12 Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation 1898
13 A Dream of Armageddon 1901
14 The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost 1902
15 The Valley of Spiders 1903
16 The Magic Shop 1903
17 Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland 1903
18 The Door in the Wall 1906
19 The Desert Daisy 1957
20 Ugh-Lomi and the Cave Bear 2016
21 The New Accelerator 2017
22 Under the Knife 2022
23 A Vision of Judgment 2022
24 Aepyornis Island 2022
25 The Obliterated Man 2022
Colecciones de cuentos cortos
# Título Año
1 Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences 1895
2 The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents 1896
3 The Crystal Egg and Other Tales 1897
4 Thirty Strange Stories 1897
5 The Plattner Story and Others 1897
6 Tales of Space and Time 1899
7 Twelve Stories and a Dream 1906
8 The Country of the Blind and Other Selected Stories 1909
9 Tales of Wonder 1910
10 Selected Stories of H.G. Wells 1927
11 The Complete Short Stories 1927
12 The Moth and Other Stories 1962
13 Early Writings in Science and Science Fiction 1975
14 The Empire of the Ants and Other Stories 1977
15 The Collector's Book of Science Fiction 1978
16 The Man With a Nose 1984
17 In the Days of the Comet & Seventeen Short Stories 1999
18 The Red Room and Other Stories 2000
19 The Grisly Folk, and the Wild Asses of the Devil 2008
20 Collected Short Stories 2008
21 Tales of the Weird and Supernatural 2011
22 The Best Short Stories of H.G. Wells 2015
23 The Argonauts of the Air & 15 Short Stories 2015
24 The Door in the Wall? And Other Stories 2017
Screenplays
# Título Año
1 The Man Who Could Work Miracles 1898
Libros de no ficción
# Título Año
1 Certain Personal Matters 1897
2 Anticipations 1901
3 The Discovery of the Future 1902
4 Mankind in the Making 1903
5 The Future in America 1906
6 This Misery of Boots 1907
7 First and Last Things 1908
8 New Worlds for Old 1908
9 Floor Games 1911
10 Little Wars 1913
11 An Englishman Looks at the World 1914
12 What is Coming? 1916
13 Elements of Reconstruction 1916
14 God the Invisible King 1917
15 War and the Future / Italy, France and Britain at War 1917
16 In The Fourth Year 1918
17 The Outline of History 1919
18 Russia in the Shadows 1920
19 The Salvaging of Civiization 1921
20 A Short History of the World 1922
21 Washington and the Riddle of Peace / Washington and the Hope of Peace 1922
22 A Modern Utopia and Other Discussions 1925
23 The Open Conspiracy: What Are We To Do With Our Lives? 1928
24 The Science of Life 1929
25 The Science of Life (With: G.P. Wells, Julian Huxley) 1929
26 The Open Conspiracy and Other Writings 1933
27 Experiment in Autobiography 1934
28 H.G. Wells in Love 1934
29 World Brain 1938
30 The Fate of Homo Sapiens / The Fate of Man 1939
31 The New World Order 1939
32 The Conquest of Time 1942
33 Crux Ansata 1943
34 Mind at the End of Its Tether 1945
35 Frank Swinnerton 1975
36 Frank Swinnerton (With: Arnold Bennett, Grant M. Overton) 1975
37 Interviews and Recollections 1980
38 Experiment in Autobiography, Vol. 2 1984
39 A Volume of Journalism 1999
40 The Conquest of Time and The Happy Turning 2002
41 Little Wars and Floor Games 2006
H.G. Wells Audiobooks
# Título Año
1 The Martian Invasion of Earth 1898
Correspondence Of H.G. Wells Books
# Título Año
1 The Correspondence of H.G. Wells 1996
2 The Correspondence of H G Wells, Vol. 2 1997
3 The Correspondence of H G Wells, Vol. 4 1997
4 The Correspondence of H G Wells, Vol. 3 1997
MIT Press/Radium Age Books
# Título Año
1 Voices from the Radium Age ( By: Joshua Glenn) 2022
2 A World of Women (By: J.D. Beresford) 2022
3 The World Set Free 2022
4 The Clockwork Man (By: E.V. Odle) 2022
5 Of One Blood (By: Pauline Hopkins) 2022
6 Nordenholt's Million ( By: J.J. Connington) 2022
7 What Not ( By: Rose Macaulay) 2022
8 Theodore Savage 2023
9 The Lost World and The Poison Belt ( By: Arthur Conan Doyle) 2023
10 More Voices from the Radium Age ( By: Joshua Glenn) 2023
11 The Napoleon of Notting Hill (By: G.K. Chesterton) 2023
12 The Inhumans and Other Stories (By: Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay) 2024
13 Before Superman (By: Joshua Glenn) 2025
Smart Pop Books
# Título Año
1 Seven Seasons of Buffy (By: Scott Westerfeld, Charlaine Harris, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Christie Golden, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Nancy Holder, Lawrence Watt-Evans, David Brin, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Jean Lorrah, Laura Resnick, Sarah Zettel, Nancy Kilpatrick, Michelle West, Glenn Yeffeth, Margaret L. Carter, Peg Aloi, Marguerite Krause, Jennifer Crusie, Carla Montgomery) 2003
2 Taking the Red Pill (By: Glenn Yeffeth) 2003
3 Five Seasons of Angel (By: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Peter S. Beagle, Laura Anne Gilman, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Nancy Holder, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Jean Lorrah, Josepha Sherman, Laura Resnick, Candace Havens, Glenn Yeffeth, Michelle Sagara, Steven Harper, Amy Berner, Marguerite Krause, Abbie Bernstein, Jennifer Crusie, Don DeBrandt, K. Stoddard Hayes, Joy Davidson, Don Kerns) 2004
4 Stepping through the Stargate (By: P.N. Elrod, Roxanne Conrad) 2004
5 The Anthology at the End of the Universe (By: Stephen Baxter, John Shirley, Adam-Troy Castro, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Adam Roberts, Susan Sizemore, Mark W. Tiedemann, Jacqueline Carey, Vox Day, Cory Doctorow, A.M. Dellamonica, Glenn Yeffeth, Selina Rosen, Amy Berner, Maria Alexander, Marguerite Krause, Bruce Bethke, Don DeBrandt, Marie-Catherine Caillava, Mike Byrne) 2005
6 Finding Serenity (By: Robert Brian Taylor) 2005
7 The War of the Worlds 2005
8 Navigating the Golden Compass (By: Glenn Yeffeth) 2005
9 Alias Assumed (By: Tracy S. Morris) 2005
10 Farscape Forever! Sex, Drugs and Killer Muppets (By: Glenn Yeffeth) 2005
11 Flirting With Pride And Prejudice (By: Glenn Yeffeth, Jennifer Crusie) 2005
12 Revisiting Narnia (By: Shanna Caughey) 2005
13 King Kong Is Back! An Unauthorized Look at One Humongous Ape! (By: David Brin) 2005
14 Totally Charmed (By: Maggie Shayne, Rebecca York, Jody Lynn Nye, Evelyn Vaughn, Tanya Huff, Vera Nazarian, Jennifer Crusie) 2005
15 The Unauthorized X-Men (By: Leah Wilson, Len Wein) 2006
16 This Is Chick-Lit (By: Lauren Baratz-Logsted) 2006
17 Welcome to Wisteria Lane ( By: Leah Wilson) 2006
18 The Man from Krypton (By: Glenn Yeffeth) 2006
19 The Battle for Azeroth (By: Jody Lynn Nye, Justina Robson, Doranna Durgin, Bill Fawcett, Mel White, James John Bell, James M. Ward, Scott Cuthbertson, Nancy Berman, Jerry Jackson, Chris McCubbin, Maressa Hecht Orzack, Nancy Durgin) 2006
20 Getting Lost (By: Orson Scott Card) 2006
21 Boarding the Enterprise (By: Robert J. Sawyer, David Gerrold) 2006
22 So Say We All (By: Peter B. Lloyd, Richard Hatch) 2006
23 Investigating CSI (By: Leah Wilson, Donn Cortez) 2006
24 Coffee at Luke's (By: Leah Wilson, Jennifer Crusie) 2007
25 Webslinger (By: Leah Wilson, Gerry Conway) 2007
26 Halo Effect (By: Glenn Yeffeth, Jennifer Thomason) 2007
27 Neptune Noir (By: Rob Thomas) 2007
28 Perfectly Plum (By: Leah Wilson) 2007
29 Grey's Anatomy 101 (By: Leah Wilson) 2007
30 Serenity Found (By: Orson Scott Card, Jacob Clifton, Michael Marano, Jane Espenson, Natalie Haynes, Nathan Fillion) 2007
31 House Unauthorized (By: Leah Wilson) 2007
32 Batman Unauthorized (By: Leah Wilson) 2008
33 Secrets of the Dragon Riders (By: James A. Owen) 2008
34 In the Hunt (By: Leah Wilson) 2009
35 James Bond in the 21st Century (By: Leah Wilson, Glenn Yeffeth) 2009
36 Ardeur (By: Laurell K Hamilton) 2010
37 A Taste of True Blood (By: Leah Wilson) 2010
38 You Do Not Talk About Fight Club (By: Chuck Palahniuk, Read Mercer Schuchardt) 2015
H.G. Wells Anthologies
# Título Año
1 Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1931
2 The Pocket Book of Mystery Stories 1941
3 World's Great Mystery Stories 1943
4 Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Bar The Doors 1946
5 50 Great Short Stories 1952
6 The Sixth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories 1970
7 The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A 1973
8 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... 1974
9 Rivals of Sherlock Holmes 1979
10 Over the Rainbow 1983
11 The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories 1984
12 Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls 1985
13 War Stories 1987
14 Mysterious Sea Stories 1987
15 Science Fiction Stories 1988
16 Tales of the Occult 1989
17 The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales 1993
18 The Best Crime Stories Ever Told 2002
19 The Campfire Collection: Ghosts, Beasts, and Things That Go Bump in the Night 2003
20 The War of the Worlds: Fresh Perspectives 2005
21 Seven Seasons of Buffy 2003
22 Totally Charmed 2005
23 Tainted: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural 2008
24 The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology 2009
25 Great Classic Science Fiction 2010
26 The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction 2010
27 Visions of Tomorrow: Science Fiction Predictions that Came True 2010
28 The Origins of Science Fiction 2010
29 A Short Story Anthology 2013
30 The Time Traveler's Almanac 2013
31 The Occult Fiction Collection 2019
32 Contact: Stories of the New World 2013
33 Amazing Stories, February 1929 2014
34 Classic Martian Stories 2014
35 Lost Mars 2018
36 30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories 2019
37 30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die 2019
38 Classic Tales of Horror 2020
39 Amazing Stories Volume 01 Number 09 2021
40 Tales of Time Warps 2024