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H. G. Wells

1866–1946

Wells writes like a man telling you something urgent over a cup of tea: plain sentences, an ordinary English setting, then one impossible thing that quietly rearranges everything around it. Both The Time Machine and The Invisible Man start from a simple premise and follow it to uncomfortable places, mixing wonder with a sharp eye for how people treat each other. Start with The Time Machine if you want the wider, stranger view; start with The Invisible Man if you'd rather stay in a village and watch a small community react to something it can't explain.

Feels like dread, wonder and time.

Start with The Time Machine.

Wells studied biology under T. H. Huxley, Darwin's most famous defender, in London, and the book's vision of evolution going wrong shows it.

Chasing the end of the world in leaps of a thousand years.

“So I travelled, stopping ever and again, in great strides of a thousand years or more, drawn on by the mystery of the earth’s fate, watching with a strange fascination the sun grow larger and duller in the westward sky, and the life of the old earth ebb away. At last, more than thirty million years hence, the huge red-hot dome of the sun had come to obscure nearly a tenth part of the darkling heavens. Then I stopped once more, for the crawling multitude of crabs had disappeared, and the red beach, save for its livid green liverworts and lichens, seemed lifeless. And now it was flecked with white. A bitter cold assailed me. Rare white flakes ever and again came eddying down. To the north-eastward, the glare of snow lay under the starlight of the sable sky, and I could see an undulating crest of hillocks pinkish white.
— The Time Machine, H. G. Wells (1895)

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