Simon J. James is an English academic and specialist in late Victorian and Edwardian fiction, especially George Gissingand H. G. Wells. A Professor of English Literature at Durham University, he is currently the Head of the Department of English Studies (2015-2018). He is the Editor of The Wellsian, the journal of the H. G. Wells Society. As well as publishing a book on George Gissing and writing many academic articles, he has also edited four H. G. Wells novels for Penguin Classics .

James, S. J. (1997). Money and narrative: Dickens, Gissing and Wells. University of Cambridge. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/556853926

James, S. J., & Smith, D. C. (January 01, 1998). The Correspondence of H. G. Wells, 1880--1946. Tls, the Times Literary Supplement, 4962, 14. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/87019893

James, S. J., & Lodge, D. (2005). Penguin Classics Introduction to Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul by H.G. Wells (Penguin Classics). Place of publication not identified: Penguin. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/904726288

James, S. J. (May 15, 2010). H. G. Wells, Modernity and the Movies (review). Science Fiction Film and Television, 3, 1, 153-155. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/631201918

James, S. J., & Beer, G. (2011). Penguin Classics Introduction to Love and Mr Lewisham by H.G. Wells. Cambridge [eng.: Proquest LLC. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/904726334

James, S. J., Foot, M., & Partington, J. S. (2011). Penguin Classics Introduction to The New Machiavelli by H.G. Wells. Cambridge [England: Proquest LLC. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/904727072

James, S. J. (2012). Maps of Utopia: H.G. Wells, modernity, and the end of culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/774070163

Wells, H. G., & In James, S. J. (2012). The History of Mr Polly: Edited by Simon J. James with an Introduction by John Sutherland and Notes by John Sutherland and Simon J. James (Penguin Classics). (Penguin Classics.) Cambridge [England: Proquest LLC. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/785884671

James, S. J. (September 07, 2016). Science journals: The worlds of H. G. Wells. Nature, 537, 7619, 162-164.  http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6822689898

Patrick Parrinder (born 1944) is an academic, currently Professor of English at the School of English and American Literature at the University of Reading, having been educated at Leighton Park School before going on to King's College, Cambridge. He has written books of literary criticism on James Joyce and H.G. Wells. He is associate editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, focusing on literary authors in the period 1890-1920. He is an editor of H.G. Wells texts.

Parrinder, P., & Wells, H. (1972). H[erbert] g[eorge] wells (The critical heritage series). London usw.: Routledge & Paul.  | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/967704603

Parrinder, P., & Philmus, R. (1980). H.G. wells's literary criticism. Brighton England: Harvester Press. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/905677655

International H.G. Wells Symposium London, England), Parrinder, P., & Rolfe, C. (1990). H.G. wells under revision : Proceedings of the international h.G. wells symposium, london, july 1986. Selinsgrove Pa.: Susquehanna University Press. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/463440105

Parrinder, P. (1995). Shadows of the future : H.G. wells, science fiction, and prophecy (1st ed. ed., Utopianism and communitarianism). Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/489791976

Parrinder, P. (2003). Science fiction : Its criticism and teaching (New accents). London: Routledge. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/860710752

Parrinder, P., & H.G. Wells Society. (2007). From midhurst grammar school to cosmopolis (H.G. wells society occasional papers. new series, no. 1). London?: H.G. Wells Society. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/156278636

Parrinder, P. (Ed.). (2013). H.G. wells. London: Routledge. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/944521115

Parrinder, P., & Partington, J. (2013). The reception of h.G. wells in europe (The reception of british authors in europe). London: Bloomsbury Academic. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/747797564

Parrinder, P. (2015). Utopian literature and science : From the scientific revolution to brave new world and beyond. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/989508753

John Hammond is a Research Fellow at Nottingham Trent University and Founding President of the H G Wells Society. He has written and lectured extensively on literary topics and is the past President of the H G Wells Society. He is the author of H G Wells and the Modern Novel and H G Wells and the Short Story and has also written critical studies of Defoe, Stevenson, Poe and Orwell.

Hammond, J. R. (1977). Herbert George Wells: An annot. bibliogr. of his works. New York: Garland. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/644262196

Hammond, J. R. (1979). An H.G. Wells companion: A guide to the novels, romances, and short stories. New York: Barnes & Noble Books. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/807787174

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Hammond, J. R., & Wells, H. G. (1980). H. G. Wells: Interviews and recollections. London [etc.: Macmillan Press. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/905360202

International H.G. Wells Symposium, Parrinder, P., & Rolfe, C. (1990). H.G. Wells under revision: Proceedings of the International H.G. Wells Symposium, London, July 1986. Selinsgrove [Pa.: Susquehanna University Press. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/463440105

Hammond, J. R. (1991). H.G. Wells and Rebecca West. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24845822

Hammond, J. R. (1999). An H. G. Wells chronology. New York: St. Martin's Press. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/833551317

Wells, H. G., & Hammond, J. R. (2000). The complete short stories of H.G. Wells. London: Phoenix. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/836799881

Hammond, J. (2000). The H.G. Wells Society: The first forty years 1960-2000 : a short History. London?: H.G. Wells Society. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49602674

Wells, H. G., & Hammond, J. R. (2001). The Betterave papers and Aesops quinine for Delphi. Nottingham: H. G. Wells Society. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/780335961

Hammond, J. R. (2001). H. G. Wells and the short story. Basingstoke [u.a.: Palgrave. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/248228695

Hammond, J. R. (2004). H. G. Wells's The time machine: A reference guide. Westport, Conn. [u.a.: Praeger. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/845703703

Hammond, J. R. (2014). A Preface to H G Wells. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis. | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/884647667