H. G. Wells
 H. G. Wells      (author) | |
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| Born | Herbert George Wells 1866-09-21 Bromley, Kent, United Kingdom |
| Died | 1946-08-13 (Age 79) Regent's Park, London, United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | Royal College of Science, Imperial College London |
| Children | • George Phillip "G. P." Wells • Frank Richard Wells • Anna-Jane Kennard (1909-2010 • ) • Anthony West |
| Spouse | Isabel Mary Wells |
| Member of | Coefficients (dining club), Fabian Society, The Other Club |
English science fiction writer and futurist | |
Herbert George Wells was an English writer who created novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games and he is now best remembered for his science fiction novels; he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web.
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"This famous story [The Time Machine] was written by a young British writer in 1893 whose ideas and pioneering work in shaping new techniques of cultural warfare which profoundly affected the next 130 years of human history. These ideas led to the innovation of novel techniques of “predictive programming”, and to mass psychological warfare. In contrast to the optimistic views of mankind and the future potential envisioned by the great science fiction writer Jules Verne earlier, Wells’ misanthropic tales had the intended effect of reducing the creative potential and love of humanity that Verne’s work awoke.
To restate the technique more clearly: By shaping society’s imagination of the future, and embedding existential/nihilistic outcomes within his plotlines, Wells realized that the entire zeitgeist of humanity could be affected on a profound level than simple conscious reason would permit. Since he robed his poison in the cloth of “fiction” the minds of those receiving his stories would find their critical thinking faculties disengaged and would simply take in all trojan horses embedded in the stories into their unconsciousness. This has been an insight used for over a century by social engineers and intelligence agencies whose aim has always been the willing enslavement of all people of the earth."[1]
A Document by H. G. Wells
| Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Authors' Declaration of September 1914 | manifesto | September 1914 | WW1 | An declaration in support of World War 1 by 53 leading British authors. One of the earliest efforts of the nascent War Propaganda Bureau to craft a coherent intellectual message in support of the war effort. |
