H. G. Wells:
Utopia and Doomsday
Novelist, short-story writer, historian, twice-defeated Socialist candidate for England's Parliament, H. G. Wells (1866-1946) said he would "rather be called a journalist than an artist." All of his work, fiction as well as nonfiction, has a sense of journalis- tic immediacy about it. Best known for his science fiction (The War of the Worlds,The Time Machine), Wells was a prophet who saw both war and technological progress in advance. Here Frank D. Mc...