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Amanda Sullivan   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Herbert George Wells was born in 1866, in Bromley Kent. He was born into a poor family. His career as an author was fostered by an unfortunate accident as a child. He broke both of his legs and spent the mandatory rest period reading every book he could find. Wells was awarded a school scholarship and furthered his education at the normal school of science in London (discovering authors). It was at the normal school that Wells came under the wing of the famous biologist Thomas H Huxley. Wells was clearly influenced by his studies at the normal school and his interest in Biology (geocities.com). After graduating Wells wrote a biology test book and began submitting fiction to various magazines. Wells’s critical and popular reputation rests primarily on his early work of science fiction.   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  H G Wells gained fame with his first major work The Time Machine in 1895. Soon after the publication of this book, Wells followed with The Island of Dr.Moreau in 1985, The invisible man in 1897, and perhaps his most famous work The war of the worlds in 1898.(Science fiction stories) . These works were enormously popular at the time they appeared, most of them are acknowledged classics of the genre witch continued to be widely read and adapted into the other media (gale research). Wells’s science fiction is also noted for its sophisticated,satire of the author’s own culture and times (geocitites.com). Over the years Wells became concerned with the fate of human society in a world where technology and scientific study were advancing at a rapid pace. For a period of time he was a member of the Fabian Society, which was a group of social philosophers in London (geocities.com). Wells’s later works became less science fiction and more social critique. The accuracy of the science in His works has often been called into question. It is rumored that Wells and the French novelist Jules Verne actually criticized each other’s writings. Wells believed that â€Å"Verne couldn’t write his was out of a paper sack†, and Verne accused Wells of having â€Å"Scientifically implausible ideas† (geocities.com). The science may not be accurate, but the adventure and philosophy in his book makes Wells’s early science fiction fun and fascinating to read. Wells is best known as one of the progenitors of modern science fiction. His pioneering works in this genre foretold such development as chemical warfare, atomic weapons, and world wars (geocities.