H.G. Wells---person who could look into the future

H.G Wells, (1866-1946), English novelist, journalist, historian and most famous for his works of science fiction. Wells's best-known books are The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War Of The Worlds (1898).

From 1893 Wells became a full-time writer. As a novelist Wells made his debut with The Time Machine(1895), a parody of English class division and a satirical warning that human progress is not inevitable. The book was a huge success in the western world. Wells was the first person who talked about time being the 4Dimension and this fact was five years later on proved by Einstein. Thereafter he wrote many science-fiction classics as The Island Of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897) and The War of the Worlds (1898). The First Men On The Moon (1901) was a prophetic description of the methodology of space flight and The War In The Air (1908) describes a catastrophic aerial war.

Wells was the first person who wrote about the terrestial people(the ones from mars) as too mechanical and tough for the people of earth to face, earlier such terrestial people were always believed to be peace loving. He was the first person to talk about the catastrophic aspects of aerial war and that too about three before the first plane was built by the Wright brothers. He wrote that it would be this aerial factor that would prove to be final deciding factors in the future wars and it was Winston Churchill who read this, understood its importance and provided funds to the british army to built such planes which really proved to the deciding factore in the World war.

Wells was a member of Research Committee for the League of Nations and published several books about the world organization. Between the years 1924 and 1933 Wells lived mainly in France. From 1934 to 1946 he was the International president of PEN.
In The Holy Terror (1939) Wells studied the psychological development of a modern dictator based on the careers of Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler. He wrote about the introduction of new weapons like the nuclear ones. Wells lived through World War II in his house on Regent's Park, refusing to let the blitz drive him out of London.

His last book, Mind At The End Of Its Tether (1945), expressed pessimism about mankind's future prospects. Wells died in London on August 13, 1946. Wells was a distinguished writer who could really seek into the future and write it down accurately into his books. Many of the present day inventions like tanks, aeroplanes as an addition to the war frontiers and the nuclear bombs had already been talked about by him in his books.