by Barnard Bergonzi

Mr. Bergonzi examines Wells’ early fiction, from surviving student writings of the late eighties to 1901 when he published The First Men in the Moon, his last significant scientific romance, and Anticipations, his first systematic non-fictional treatise. The main emphasis of his study falls on the scientific romances of the nineties, which are examined in detail.

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Bergonzi, B. (1961). The early H.G. Wells: A study of the scientific romances. Manchester: University Press.

by Jack Williamson

The art and ideas of Wells seen through the eyes of a fellow practitioner who encountered Wells first in his teens in Gernsback's then-new Amazing Stories. Treats Wells's early SF.

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Ph. D. Dissertation covering H.G. Wells by noted Science Fiction author Jack Williamson.

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Williamson, J. (1964). H.G. Wells, critic of progress: A study of the early fiction.

by Walter Allen

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Allen, W. E. (1991). The English novel: A short critical history. London: Penguin Books.​

by J.S. Partington

A collection of articles published in Nature between 1893 and 1946, compiled and edited by John S. Partington. In addition to Wells' writings, the collection includes all of the reviews of his works published by Nature, and all of the journal's reports about him.

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Partington, J. S. (2008). H.G. Wells in Nature, 1893-1946: A reception reader. Franfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

Maps of Utopia tells the story of Wells's writing career over six decades, during which he produced popular science, educational theory, history, politics, prophecy, and utopia, as well as realist, experimental, and science fiction. This book asks what Wells thought literature was, and what he thought it was for.

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James, S. J. (2012). Maps of Utopia: H.G. Wells, modernity, and the end of culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

In Shadows of the Future Wells's assumption of the prophet's role is related to his championship of the modern scientific outlook, and to the theory and practice of science fiction and utopian literature. Professor Parrinder explores the connections between novelty and repetition, between imagining the future and imagining the past, and between prophecy and parody as literary modes. 

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Parrinder, P. (1995). Shadows of the future: H.G. Wells, science
fiction and prophecy. New York: Syracuse University Press.

by M.R. Page

At the close of the eighteenth century, Erasmus Darwin declared that he would "enlist the imagination under the banner of science," beginning, Michael Page argues, a literary narrative on questions of evolution, ecology, and technological progress that would extend from the Romantic through the Victorian periods. Examining the interchange between emerging scientific ideas-specifically evolution and ecology-new technologies, and literature in nineteenth-century Britain, Page shows how British writers from Darwin to H.G. Wells confronted the burgeoning expansion of scientific knowledge that was radically redefining human understanding and experience of the natural world, of human species, and of the self. Page concludes with the scientific romances of H.G. Wells, to demonstrate how evolutionary fantasies reached the pinnacle of synthesis between evolutionary science and the imagination at the close of the century.

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Page, M. R. (2012). The literary imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells: Science, evolution, and ecology. Farnham, England: Ashgate.

by S. McLean

This eclectic collection brings together a range of essays on H.G. Wells (1866-1946). While he is best known for his early 'scientific romances', which are generally acknowledged as the precursors of modern science fiction, Wells was a polymath whose varied and prolific writings included science textbooks, journalism, social novels, utopias and short stories. 

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McLean, S. (2008). H.G. Wells: Interdisciplinary essays. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Pub.

by P. Parrinder & J.S. Partington

H.G. Wells was described by one of his European critics as a "seismograph of his age." He is one of the founding fathers of modern science fiction, and as a novelist, essayist, educationalist and political propagandist his influence has been felt in every European country. This collection of essays by scholarly experts shows the varied and dramatic nature of Wells's reception, including translations, critical appraisals, novels and films on Wellsian themes, and responses to his own well-publicized visits to Russia and elsewhere. The authors chart the intense ideological debate that his writings occasioned, particularly in the inter-war years, and the censorship of his books in Nazi Germany and Francoist Spain. This book offers pioneering insights into Wells's contribution to 20th century European literature and to modern political ideas, including the idea of European union. 

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Parrinder, P., & Partington, J. S. (2005). The reception of H G Wells in Europe. Bristol, U.K: Thoemmes Continuum.

by ​Robert Thurston Hopkins

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Hopkins, R. T. (1923). H.G. Wells: Personality, character, topography. New York: Dutton.

by Michael Draper

 In this book Michael Draper moves from a critical presentation of Well's life and ideas to examine each area of his writing in turn, building up an overview which will help readers place individual books in context, equipping them to understand and appreciate more fully this often underrated writer.

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Draper, M. (1988). H.G. Wells. Houndmills: Macmillan.