This is the first new complete literary biography of H G Wells for thirty years and the first
to encompass his entire career as a writer from the science fiction of the 1890s through his
fiction and non-fiction writing all the way up to his last publication in 1946. Adam Roberts
provides a comprehensive reassessment of Wells' importance as a novelist short-story writer a
theorist of social prophecy and utopia journalist and commentator offering a nuanced portrait
of the man who coined the phrases 'atom bomb' 'League of Nations' 'the war to end war' and
'time machine' who wrote the world's first comprehensive global history and invented the idea
of the tank. In these twenty-six chapters Roberts covers the entirety of Wells' life and
discusses every book and short story he produced delivering a complete vision of this enduring
figure.
