Primary Works (Related to SF)

• 1895 The Time Machine (Scientific Romance)
• The Wonderful Visit
• The Stolen Bacillus (SS) (Scientific Romance)
• 1896 The Island of Dr. Moreau (Scientific Romance)
• 1897 The Invisible Man (Scientific Romance)
• 1898 The War of the Worlds (Serialized 1996-7; Broadcast by Orson Wells Oct. 1938) (Scientific Romance)
• Tales of Space and Time (SS) (Scientific Romance)
• 1899 When the Sleeper Wakes (Utopia/Dystopia) --Man awakes in 2100; his money has accumulated interest until he owns most of the world
• 1901The First Men in the Moon (Utopia/Dystopia) --Antigravity and life on the moon
• Anticipations of the Reactions of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought (Non-Fict)
• The Discovery of the Future (Non-Fict)
• 1902 The Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine (Fantasy)
• 1903 Mankind in the Making (Non-Fict)
• 1904 The Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth (Utopia/Dystopia) -- New food cause people to grow to giant size, but is popular resistance to growth
• 1905 A Modern Utopia(Utopia/Dystopia)
• 1906 In the Days of the Comet(Utopia/Dystopia) -- Mysterious gases of passing comet cause moral regeneration of the world
• The Future in America (Non-Fict)
• 1908 The War in the Air(Utopia/Dystopia) -- Foretells the use of airplanes to bomb targets on the ground
• 1911 The Country of the Blind (SS) (Scientific Romance)
• The Door in the Wall (SS)
• 1914 The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind (Utopia/Dystopia) --Atomic bombs followed by chaos followed by rational society
• The War That Will End War (Non-Fict)
• 1920 The Outline of History (Non-Fict)
• 1923 Men Like Gods(Utopia/Dystopia) -- Time-travel to a future utopia
• 1933 The Shape of Things to Come (Utopia/Dystopia) (Wells wrote film scenario for 1935 movie) Fictional continuation of world history to 2016; including war, period of anti-scientism, final rational end
• 1937 Star-Begotten: A Biological Fantasia (Utopia/Dystopia) -- novel, science fiction, utopia, genetic engineering, posthuman, future "A time when men will resist the established order... A time when men will no longer fight wars... A time of compromise and consolidation... A time of peace... "Such is the future H.G.Wells predicts for humanity -- a new life for new men begotten by an unseen race beyond the stars. And this Utopia is preceded by a period of chaotic transition, amazingly like the headlines of today". [jacket blurb, UK, 1975] <http://euro.net/mark-space/HGWells.html>

Criticism on The Time Machine

• Bergonzi, Bernard. "The Time Machine: An Ironic Myth." (1960) Rpt. in H.G. Wells: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Bernard Bergonzi. (Twentieth Century Views) Prentice-Hall, 1976.
• Huntington, John. Chapter 3 of The Logic of Fantasy: H.G. Wells and Science Fiction. NY: Columbia UP, 1982
• Philmus, Robert M. "The Logic of 'Prophecy' in The Time Machine." (1969) Rpt. in H.G. Wells: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Bernard Bergonzi. (Twentieth Century Views) Prentice-Hall, 1976.
• Roberts, Robin. pp. 32-37 in A New Species: Gender and Science in Science Fiction. Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1993.

Web Resources

• Hign School Teachers' Resources on The Time Machine
• Columbia Encyclopedia on Wells
• Nice Intro from a Literary Calendar
• Mark/Space: Interplanetary Review -- Contains long, not fully complete or accurate biblio)
• E-Text of The Time Machine
• H.G.Wells: "The Time Machine" A Comparison of the Book and the Film -- In terms of the Social and Cultural Background of the Time" by Adrian Fox. Clarendon Literature Notes 1996 H.G.Wells
• Paul Brians' Study Guide for The War of the Worlds
• H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" Home Page -- This page was started in April 1996, to provide information about the "War of the Worlds" Centenary Celebrations in Woking, which are taking place from January 1996 until the end of March 1997.

Last update: 2/22/97