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ophetic powers wells was the twentieth century prototype of this literary vatic figure he invented the role explored its possibilities especially through new forms of prose and new ways to publish and defined its boundaries his impact on his culture was profound as george orwell wrote the minds of all of us and therefore the physical world would be perceptibly different if wells had never existed the author as cultural hero h g wells and george orwell 114 in 2011 wells was among a group of science fiction writers featured in the prophets of science fiction series a show produced and hosted by film director sir ridley scott which depicts how predictions influenced the development of scientific advancements by inspiring many readers to assist in transforming those futuristic visions into everyday reality 115 in a 2013 review of the time machine for the new yorker magazine brad leithauser writes at the base of wells s great visionary exploit is this rational ultimately scientific attempt to tease out the potential future consequences of present conditions not as they might arise in a few years or even decades but millennia hence epochs hence he is world literature s great extrapolator like no other fiction writer before him he embraced deep time 116 political views edit main article political views of h g wells churchill avidly read wells an october 1906 churchill speech was partly inspired by wells s ideas of a supportive state as a utopia two days earlier churchill had written to wells i owe you a great debt 117 118 wells was a socialist and a member of the fabian society 119 he stood as a labour party candidate for london university in the 1922 and 1923 general elections 120 wells was a member of the other club a london dining club co founded by winston churchill who was an avid reader of his books after they first met in 1902 they kept in touch until wells died in 1946 117 as a junior minister churchill borrowed lines from wells for one of his most famous early landmark speeches in 1906 as prime minister the phrase the gathering storm used by churchill to describe the rise of nazi germany had been written by wells in the war of the worlds which depicts an attack on britain by martians 117 wells s extensive writings on equality and human rights most notably his most influential work the rights of man 1940 laid the groundwork for the 1948 universal declaration of human rights which was adopted by the united nations shortly after his death 121 his efforts regarding the league of nations on which he collaborated on the project with leonard woolf with the booklets the idea of a league of nations prolegomena to the study of world organization and the way of the league of nations became a disappointment as the organization turned out to be a weak one unable to prevent the second world war which itself occurred towards the very end of his life and only increased the pessimistic side of his nature 122 in his last book mind at the end of its tether 1945 he considered the idea that humanity being replaced by another species might not be a bad idea he referred to the era between the two world wars as the age of frustration 123 wells was initially an opponent of zionism in in the days of the comet jews are described as parasites on european society however wells later became a strong supporter of the establishment of a jewish state in response to the holocaust and initiated a correspondence with chaim weizmann the first president of israel 124 religious views edit wells s views on god and religion changed over his lifetime early in his life he distanced himself from christianity and later from theism finally late in life he was essentially atheistic martin gardner summarises this progression the younger wells did not object to using the word god provided it did not imply anything resembling human personality in his middle years wells went through a phase of defending the concept of a finite god similar to the god of such process theologians as samuel alexander edgar brightman and charles hartshorne he even wrote a book about it called god the invisible king later wells decided he was really an atheist 125 in god the invisible king 1917 wells wrote that his idea of god did not draw upon the traditional religions of the world this book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer which is a profound belief in a personal and intimate god putting the leading idea of this book very roughly these two antagonistic typical conceptions of god may be best contrasted by speaking of one of them as god as nature or the creator and of the other as god as christ or the redeemer one is the great outward god the other is the inmost god the first idea was perhaps developed most highly and completely in the god of spinoza it is a conception of god tending to pantheism to an idea of a comprehensive god as ruling with justice rather than affection to a conception of aloofness and awestriking worshipfulness the second idea which is contradictory to this idea of an absolute god is the god of the human heart the writer suggested that the great outline of the theological struggles of that phase of civilisation and world unity which produced christianity was a persistent but unsuccessful attempt to get these two different ideas of god into one focus 126 later in the work he aligns himself with a renascent or modern religion neither atheist nor buddhist nor mohammedan nor christian that he has found growing up in himself 127 of christianity he said it is not now true for me every believing christian is i am sure my spiritual brother but if systemically i called myself a christian i feel that to most men i should imply too much and so tell a lie of other world religions he writes all these religions are true for me as canterbury cathedral is a true thing and as a swiss chalet is a true thing there they are and they have served a purpose they have worked only they are not true for me to live in them they do not work for me 128 in the fate of homo sapiens 1939 wells criticised almost all world religions and philosophies stating there is no creed no way of living left in the world at all that really meets the needs of the time when we come to look at them coolly and dispassionately all the main religions patriotic moral and customary systems in which human beings are sheltering today appear to be in a state of jostling and mutually destructive movement like the houses and palaces and other buildings of some vast sprawling city overtaken by a landslide 129 wells s opposition to organised religion reached a fever pitch in 1943 with publication of his book crux ansata subtitled an indictment of the roman catholic church in which he attacked catholicism pope pius xii and called for the bombing of the city of rome 130 despite being highly skeptical to christianity hg wells had surprisingly positive views on islam he complimented how islam brought equity and order to a tribalistic part of the world 131 even praising prophet muhhamad s farewell speech as a highly progressive speech against racism and a call for equality 132 literary influence and legacy edit h g wells as depicted in gernsback s science wonder stories in 1929 the science fiction historian john clute describes wells as the most important writer the genre has yet seen and notes his work has been central to both british and american science fiction 133 science fiction author and critic algis budrys said wells remains the outstanding expositor of both the hope and the despair which are embodied in the technology and which are the major facts of life in our world 134 he was nominated for the nobel prize in literature in 1921 1932 1935 and 1946 10 wells so influenced real exploration of space that impact craters on mars and the moon were named after him 135 wells s genius was his ability to create a stream of brand new wholly original stories out of thin air originality was wells s calling card in a six year stretch from 1895 to 1901 he produced a stream of what he called scientific romance novels which included the time machine the island of doctor moreau the invisible man the war of the worlds and the first men in the moon this was a dazzling display of new thought endlessly copied since a book like the war of the worlds inspired every one of the thousands of alien invasion stories that followed it burned its way into the psyche of mankind and changed us all forever cultural historian john higgs the guardian 113 magazine reprint of wells s 1910 dystopian science fiction when the sleeper wakes in the united kingdom wells s work was a key model for the british scientific romance and other writers in that mode such as olaf stapledon 136 j d beresford 137 s fowler wright 138 and naomi mitchison 139 all drew on wells s example wells was also an important influence on british science fiction of the period after the second world war with arthur c clarke 140 and brian aldiss 141 expressing strong admiration for wells s work a self declared fan of wells john wyndham author of the day of the triffids and the midwich cuckoos echoes wells s obsession with catastrophe and its aftermath 142 his early work pre 1920 made wells the literary hero of dystopian novelist george orwell 143 among contemporary british science fiction writers stephen baxter christopher priest and adam roberts have all acknowledged wells s influence on their writing all three are vice presidents of the h g wells society he also had a strong influence on british scientist j b s haldane who wrote daedalus or science and the future 1924 the last judgement and on being the right size from the essay collection possible worlds 1927 and biological possibilities for the human species in the next ten thousand years 1963 which are speculations about the future of human evolution and life on other planets haldane gave several lectures about these topics which in turn influenced other science fiction writers 144 145 wells s works were reprinted in american science fiction magazines as late as the 1950s in the united states hugo gernsback reprinted most of wells s work in the pulp magazine amazing stories regarding wells s work as texts of central importance to the self conscious new genre 133 later american writers such as ray bradbury 146 isaac asimov 147 frank herbert 148 carl sagan 135 and ursula k le guin 149 all recalled being influenced by wells sinclair lewis s early novels were strongly influenced by wells s realistic social novels such as the history of mr polly lewis also named his first son wells after the author 150 lewis nominated h g wells for the nobel prize in literature in 1932 10 in an interview with the paris review vladimir nabokov described wells as his favourite writer when he was a boy and a great artist 151 he went on to cite the passionate friends ann veronica the time machine and the country of the blind as superior to anything else written by wells s british contemporaries nabokov said his sociological cogitations can be safely ignored of course but his romances and fantasies are superb 151 2016 illustrated postal envelope with an image from the war of the worlds russian post commemorating the 150th anniversary of the author s birth jorge luis borges wrote many short pieces on wells in which he demonstrates a deep familiarity with much of wells s work 152 while borges wrote several critical reviews including a mostly negative review of wells s film things to come 153 he regularly treated wells as a canonical figure of fantastic literature late in his life borges included the invisible man and the time machine in his prologue to a personal library 154 a curated list of 100 great works of literature that he undertook at the behest of the argentine publishing house emecé wells also inspired writers of continental european speculative fiction such as karel čapek 149 mikhail bulgakov 155 and yevgeny zamyatin 149 in 2021 wells was one of six british writers commemorated on a series of uk postage stamps issued by royal mail to celebrate british science fiction 156 six classic science fiction novels were depicted one from each author with the time machine chosen to represent wells 156 representations edit literary edit the superhuman protagonist of j d beresford s 1911 novel the hampdenshire wonder victor stott was based on wells 137 in m p shiel s short story the primate of the rose 1928 there is an unpleasant womaniser named e p crooks who was written as a parody of wells 157 wells had attacked shiel s prince zaleski when it was published in 1895 and this was shiel s response 157 wells praised shiel s the purple cloud 1901 in turn shiel expressed admiration for wells referring to him at a speech to the horsham rotary club in 1933 as my friend mr wells 157 in c s lewis s novel that hideous strength 1945 the character jules is a caricature of wells 158 and much of lewis s science fiction was written both under the influence of wells and as an antithesis to his work or as he put it an exorcism 159 of the influence it had on him in brian aldiss s novella the saliva tree 1966 wells has a small off screen guest role 160 in saul bellow s novel mr sammler s planet 1970 wells is one of several historical figures the protagonist met when he was a young man 161 in the map of time 2008 by spanish author félix j palma wells is one of several historical characters 162 wells is one of the two georges in paul levinson s 2013 time travel novelette ian george and george published in analog magazine 163 david lodge s novel a man of parts 2011 is a literary retelling of the life of wells 164 dramatic edit rod taylor portrays wells 165 166 in the 1960 science fiction film the time machine based on the novel of the same name in which wells uses his time machine to try to find his utopian society 166 malcolm mcdowell portrays wells in the 1979 science fiction film time after time in which wells uses a time machine to pursue jack the ripper to the present day 166 in the film wells meets amy in the future who then returns to 1893 to become his second wife amy catherine robbins wells is portrayed in the 1985 story timelash from the 22nd season of the bbc science fiction television series doctor who in this story herbert an enthusiastic temporary companion to the doctor is revealed to be a young h g wells the plot is loosely based upon the themes and characters of the time machine with references to the war of the worlds the invisible man and the island of doctor moreau the story jokingly suggests that wells s inspiration for his later novels came from his adventure with the sixth doctor 167 in the british tv miniseries the infinite worlds of h g wells 2001 several of wells s short stories are dramatised but are adapted using wells himself tom ward as the main protagonist in each story 168 in the disney channel original series phil of the future which centres on time travel the present day high school that the main characte...