H.G. Wells and the Scientific Imagination by W. Warren Wagar | http://www.vqronline.org/essay/hg-wells-and-scientific-imagination

Remember H.G. Wells for His Social Predictions by Simon J. James | http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2016/09/20/remember_hg_wells_for_his_social_predictions_109757.html#!

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James, S. (2016). Science journals: The worlds of H. G. Wells. Nature, 537(7619), 162-164. doi:10.1038/537162a

Criticism in English of H.G. Wells's Science Fiction: A Select Annotated Bibliography by David Y. Hughes| http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/19/hughes19bib.htm

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5544091927

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Hughes, D. Y. (1979). Criticism in English of H.G. Wells's science fiction: A select annotated bibliography. Science Fiction Studies, 6, 3, 309-319.

Science journals: The worlds of H. G. Wells by Simon J. James | http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v537/n7619/full/537162a.html

H.G. Wells, the Man Who Invented Tomorrow by Christopher Benfey | http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/books/review/a-man-of-parts-by-david-lodge-book-review.html

H. G. Wells’s Ghost by Brad Leithauser | http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/h-g-wellss-ghost

H.G. Wells Time Machine - In Search of Time Future and Times Past by Petere Firchow | http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic568163.files/Week%204%20July%2020-July%2024/Readings%20Thurs%207%2023/Firchow%20HG%20Wells%20Time%20Machine.pdf

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Firchow, P. (2004). H. G. Wells's "Time machine": In search of time future—and time past. Midwest Quarterly, 45(2).

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H.G. Wells's The Time Machine As An Evolutionary Narrative by Andrew Kidd | https://www.academia.edu/7489167/H.G._Wellss_The_Time_Machine_As_An_Evolutionary_Narrative

A Comparison of Dystopian Nightmares and Utopian Dreams: Two Paths in Science Fiction Literature That Both Lead to Humanity’s Loss of Empathy by Alisha G. Scott

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/988348710​​ | http://publish.lib.umd.edu/scifi/article/view/329/79

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Scott, Alisha Grace; Antioch University Los Angeles. (2017). A Comparison of Dystopian Nightmares and Utopian Dreams: Two Paths in Science Fiction Literature That Both Lead to Humanity’s Loss of Empathy. MOSF Journal of Science Fiction.

Investigates H. G. Wells' interest in cinema and related media technologies, by placing it back into the contemporary cultural and scientific contexts giving rise to them. This book accounts for the specifically (proto)cinematic techniques and concerns of Wells' texts. It focuses on contemporary film-making in dialogue with his ideas. 

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Williams, K. (2007). H.G. Wells, modernity and the movies. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.

This article explores the involvement of H.G. Wells in the early institutional development of sociology in Britain. It addresses Wells's aspiration to a Chair of Sociology as the context for his claim that that 'the creation of utopias - and their exhaustive criticism - is the proper and distinctive method of sociology', and the implications of a hundred years of suppression of utopianism and normativity within the discipline. It argues that Wells was substantially right, and that if sociology embraced the more utopian method of the Imaginary Reconstitution of Society, it would inform a greater range of social alternatives for confronting ecological and economic crises. 

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Levitas, R. (2010). Back to the future: Wells, sociology, utopia and method. Sociological Review, 58(4), 530-547. doi:10.1111/j.1467-954X.2010.01938.x

This essay argues that information technologies profoundly inflected late-Victorian conceptions of imperial systems, focusing on the fin-de-siècle writing of H. G. Wells. In imperial satires like The War of the Worlds and The First Men in the Moon, Wells elaborated monitory parables that used technologies like the telegraph and new wireless to construct an imperial chronotope associating territorial expansion with cultural extinction. Meanwhile, in his prophetic writing of the same period, Wells envisioned technologically saturated utopias premised upon the eradication of all difference. The case of Wells illustrates how media, as prostheses of thought, helped not only to articulate the imperial anxieties and fantasies of the age but also to gloss over the ideological faultlines between them.

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Worth, A. (2010). Imperial Transmissions: H. G. Wells, 1897-1901. Victorian Studies, 53(1), 65-89. doi:10.2979/victorianstudies.53.1.65

Presents literary criticism which discusses the serialization of the science fiction novel "The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells in the "Boston Post" newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts though this was an altered version that appeared from January 9 to February 3, 1898. The adaptation of the novel by yellow periodicals and a critical study of the serialized novel that was completed by critic David Y. Hughes is considered. The article draws parallels between the novel and the American invasion of Cuba.

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Mollmann, S. (2010). The War of the Worlds" in the "Boston Post" and the Rise of American Imperialism: "Let Mars Fire. English Literature In Transition, 1880-1920, 53(4), 387-412.

The prolific and pioneering H. G. Wells, in addition to establishing himself as the founder of modern science fiction, also wrote several realist and satirical novels, a pair of world history volumes, and two books about miniature, tabletop gaming. With his world histories, he sought to fulfill Immanuel Kant's proposed project of writing a universal, cosmopolitan history. I argue that in many of his science fiction novels, from When the Sleeper Wakes to The Shape of Things to Come, Wells sought to execute a complementary project of imagining a future history leading to a cosmopolitan outcome. The open-ended nature of this endeavor, however, often conflicted with the domineering impulse that Wells displays in his fascination with imagining miniature worlds in "Floor Games and Little Wars," and in his attempt to commandeer the reins of the Fabian Society. Nevertheless, the cosmopolitan future history is one of Wells's most lasting literary innovations, resonating in the work of modern sf writers including Olaf Stapledon, Ursula K. Le Guin, Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, and Kim Stanley Robinson. 

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Fritz, M. (2010). Miniaturization and Cosmopolitan Future History in the Fiction of H. G. Wells. Science Fiction Studies, 37(2), 210-229.

The article discusses the literary works of author Herbert George Wells in Great Britain. It criticizes Wells's article "Man of the Year Million" which predicted the evolutionary future of mankind. It explores the author's adoption of physiologist Thomas Huxley's pessimistic idea on late-Victorian evolutionary theory, specifically his emphasis on the brutality of natural selection. It also examines the work of Wells as a case study of cross-fertilization between literature and scientific ideas. The association between genius and insanity is discoursed.

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Stiles, A. (2009). Literature in Mind: H. G. Wells and the Evolution of the Mad Scientist. Journal Of The History Of Ideas, 70(2), 317-339.

This article discusses trauma, sublime and ambivalence in the representation of the book "The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells. The author explains how "The War of the Worlds" text transform the force of trauma into the containment of the sublime theorized by Edmund Burke, an Irish statesman and philosopher. The observation of Carl Freedman, the author of "Critical Theory and Science Fiction," regarding the ambivalence of this book is also discussed.

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Paudyal, B. (2009). Trauma, Sublime, and the Ambivalence of Imperialist Imagination in H. G. Wells's "The War of the Worlds.". Extrapolation (University Of Texas At Brownsville), 50(1), 102-119.

Presents literary criticism on the book "The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells. According to the author, Wells established a solid connection between the symbolic representation of the novel and the print environment in 1890s. The advantage of using the first-person narration and the lack of narrator's name in this novel is discussed. Aside from drawing attention to journalistic unreliability, "The War of the Worlds" also warn the readers to be cautious and skeptical of their information sources.

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Malia, J. (2009). Public Imbecility and Journalistic Enterprise": The Satire on Mars Mania in H. G. Wells's "The War of the Worlds. Extrapolation (University Of Texas At Brownsville), 50(1), 80-101.

A biography of science fiction writer Herbert George Wells is presented. Wells was born on September 21, 1866 in Bromley, Kent, England. His schooling took place at Knott's Dame School from 1871-1874, and Thomas Morley's Commercial Academy from 1874-1880 in Bromley. He founded and edited the "Science Schools Journal" during 1886-1887, and got involved in London socialist politics through participation in the School Debating Society.

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Partington, J. S. (2008). H. G. Wells: A Political Life. Utopian Studies, 19(3), 517-576.

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H. G. Wells produced some of the best literature and practical ideas on peace, providing essential clues for achieving a mutually beneficial federal human unity through an 'Open Conspiracy,' as he put it, i.e. an intellectual and political transformation, and a revolution in education. It is possible to abolish war and ensure lasting human progress and prosperity - facilitated today, as Wells had foreseen, by emerging third-world countries like China and India, which are becoming essential pillars to sustain world civilization in the 21st century. However, world peace is impossible to achieve without humanity possessing common historical ideas. As people everywhere become 'citizens of the world', a 'world commonweal', with universally applied education and elements of a global administration, is actually emerging, as Wells predicted. Concretely, for this to fully meterialize in our present age, shaped by the predicament of the nuclear age, globalization and the internet, we must bring to completion Wells' vision to achieve some sort of 'Confederation of Man', with a disarmament agency to pool the military, naval, and air establishments of the federating nations into one global force, and then go on to reduce that force to the size of a world police. As we proceed to understand the narrative of our collective past, Wells gains renewed significance, and as the future unravels, his ideas empower and encourage us to take the necessary steps in responsible global citizenship. All over the world, in books, newspapers, on the air, in the cinema, and in the brain of the world, that war goes on, until at last it ends in a mutually tolerant federal human unity. But that will not be the end of war. It will be its crowning transformation. Men will be, if anything, more aggressive ... The men of the Ultimate War will explore the hidden wealth within our planet and the secrets of matter. They will control and increase the harvests of the sea, they will abolish waste places, end swamp and jungle, and turn the surface of the whole earth into a smiling garden. They will gain a new purchase upon their own lives; living more stoutly and longer and with a new elation. They will explore their own creative possibilities for a mightier art and a more abundant beauty. The world begins anew - if they carry on this last transformation of war to its completion. ...You cannot sit back and beg to be excused. The War into which War is now being transformed will not tolerate that (Wells, 1942, p. 27). Hunting the truth is an art (Wells, 2002, p. 58). 

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Schlichtmann, K. (2007). H. G. Wells and peace education. Journal Of Peace Education, 4(2), 193-206. doi:10.1080/17400200701523595

The article reflects on the application of science fiction in English literature, particularly in the classic novels of H. G. Wells such as the The War of the Worlds. The novel was the first literary piece that features both romance and extraterrestrial anthropology. Wells has been considered as the man who defined the new shape of science fiction before, during, and after the Great War.

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Crossley, R. (2004). H. G. Wells, Visionary Telescopes, and the "Matter of Mars". Philological Quarterly, 83(1), 83-114.

This article argues that H. G. Wells' Time Machine is not a facile work of scientific fantasy but as a novel for its extraordinary innovativeness that is as literary as it is scientific. Background on the book; Symbolic significance of clocks in the story; Questions addressed in the story.

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Firchow, P. (2004). H. G. Wells's "Time Machine": In Search of Time Future—and Time Past. Midwest Quarterly, 45(2), 123-136.

Focuses on a study which analyzed the language usage of H.G. Wells in his science fiction works. Wells's ideas about language.

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Hardy, S. (2003). A story of the days to come: H.G. Wells and the language of science fiction. Language & Literature, 12(3), 199.

Investigates the eugenic thought of the 1930s and 1940s by H. G. Wells and why it changed during the last decade of his life. Reinstatement of T. H. Huxley's notion of ethical evolution in Well's book The Science of Life; Interest of Wells in the science of genetics; Campaign of Wells to promote educational reform.

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Partington, J. S. (2003). H.G. Wells's Eugenic Thinking of the 1930s and 1940s. Utopian Studies, 14(1), 74.

Although the discovery of radium was promoted by the physicist Frederick Soddy as a major advance in human development, the narratives that describe its application stress its negative and destructive potential. H. G. Wells's The World Set Free writes Soddy into the optimistic phase of the narrative and offers the first fictional account of nuclear war, setting a pattern for more sophisticated subsequent nuclear war novels in that the destructive force of the super-weapon is so massive that it undermines novelists' capacity to produce coherent narratives. This proposition is tested out on a series of postwar writers, including Leo Szilard (who knew Wells's original novel), Walter M. Miller, Jr., and Russell Hoban.

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Seed, D. (2003). H. G. Wells and the Liberating Atom. Science Fiction Studies, 30(1), 33-48.

Focuses on the conception of science in the novel The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells. Film adaptations of the novel; Significance of the novel; Discussion of the first section of the novel.

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Sirabian, R. (2001). The Conception of Science in Wells's The Invisible Man. Papers On Language & Literature, 37(4), 382.

Comments on the story "The Country of the Blind," by H.G. Wells. Symbolism of blindness in the story; Importance of the imagination of the main character; Grammatical insertion of ellipsis by Wells.

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Gaudet, J. R. (2001). Wells's The Country of the Blind. Explicator, 59(4), 195.

Argues on the fascist tendencies of writer and social critic H.G. Wells in Great Britain. Illustration of the relationship between the two sides of Wellsism; Contribution of Wells in the establishment of the British Union of Fascists'; Realization of the utopian dreams of Wells through active forces.

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Coupland, P. (2000). H.G. Wells's 'Liberal Fascism'. Journal Of Contemporary History, 35(4), 541.

Assesses the ideas and concepts of H.G. Wells on a world brain, knowledge and the world encyclopedia. Aspects of the context within which Wells conceptualized the ideas; Connecting Wells's ideas to the theories on the nature of global information systems and emergent intelligence.

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Rayward, W. B. (1999). H.G. Wells's Idea of a World Brain: A Critical Reassessment. Journal Of The American Society For Information Science, 50(7), 557-573.

Argues that H.G. Wells' writings about information and knowledge are historically specific. Wells' interest in information from his early support for the public library movement through to his encyclopaedism and later technological and bureaucratic utopianism; Comparison of Wells' vision of an information society to that promised by Internet.

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Muddiman, D. (1998). The Universal Library as modern utopia: The information society of H.G. Wells. Library History, 14(2), 85.

Considers how H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man possibly influenced Ralph Ellison's writing of Invisible Man. Factual evidence of influence; The theme of blackness and anonymity; Understatement; Appropriation of speech patterns.

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Fleissner, R. F. (1992). H. G. Wells and Ralph Ellison: Need the effect of one Invisible Man on another be itself invisible?. Extrapolation (Kent State University Press), 33(4), 346-350.

Addresses the generic configurations and the anti-utopian theme of the fiction "A Story of the Days to Come" written by H. G. Wells. Description of the plot-structure of the literature; Evolution of social class and disparities as stated by Wells; Comparison of the literature with other anti-utopian fiction.

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Philmus, R. M. (1987). A story of the days to come and news from nowhere: H. G. Wells as a writer of anti-utopian fiction. English Literature In Transition, 1880-1920, 30(4), 450-455.

For May Sinclair the Woman Suffrage Movement was an idea that shaped her life, or at least the culture that produced her. Sinclair was actively involved and a vocal supporter of the suffrage movement. Not a militant herself, she was a member of the Women's Freedom League for a year. She was also a member of the Women Writers Suffrage League (WWSL). In 1912 she became one of twelve vice-presidents of the WWSL. Sinclair was also not averse to writing statements for publication in Votes for Women. But despite her involvement in the suffragette movement in the years leading up to 1914, Sinclair was not comfortable with the aggressive militant side of it. H. G. Wells was among the considerable number of male writers of the day who openly supported the feminist cause and wrote for women's magazines. Wells supported the demand for the vote, but seeing that more than access to parliamentary democracy would be required if women were really to be free, he had no patience with the limited perspectives of Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and their movement. Wells's assessment of his own position would seem to prove that he did not intend to make fun of the suffragettes nor of the many other feminists who did not see the wider connections of their movement. Like Sinclair he did not support the militant suffragettes. Rather he despaired of their capacity to accomplish the task they had set themselves. Knowing that feminism was coming into maturity, he had actively supported the campaign for financial and political independence for women. 

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Pudelko, B. (2015). May Sinclair's and H. G. Wells's Involvement in the Suffrage Movement. Journal Of History, Culture & Art Research / Tarih Kültür Ve Sanat Arastirmalari Dergisi, 4(2), 56-70. doi:10.7596/taksad.v4i2.433

An essay is presented which explores the impact of English writer H. G. Well's Declaration of the Rights of Manu on the nature and interpretation of writing rights, free speech, and privacy. It examines Well's effort of inviting contributions from readers around the world about the declaration. It also mentions Wells' argument that the declaration has led to the creation of different expression and privacy rights from libertarian articulation.

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Heawood, J. (2014). Writerly rights: free speech, privacy and H. G. Wells. Critical Quarterly, 56(4), 71-82. doi:10.1111/criq.12161

H.G. Wells professed himself to be antipathetic to religion in general and to the extremes of Protestantism and Catholicism he experienced during his upbringing in particular. In The Outline of History (1920) and Experiment in Autobiography (1934), both written later in his career, Wells professes his non-belief, and laments what he sees as the Church’s negative influence on the intellectual and social development of humankind. Nonetheless, his fantastic writing frequently makes use of Judaeo-Christian tropes of the end of the world. Performing as a secular kind of hellfire preacher, Wells’ didactic portrayals of the end of the world function as an apocalyptic revelation, in the hope that his audience might be shocked into grasping the ‘truths’ of his political programme of universal education and a utopian World State. The War of the Worlds (1898) in particular draws on biblical language and eschatological imagery and even contains a theological debate between the text’s narrator and a curate whose belief is wavering. Surprisingly, given Wells’ later account of his own beliefs, the narrator himself is a Christian, and his faith endures the Martian invasion—he even thanks God for the world’s deliverance from the Martians and speculates whether the Martians themselves too believe in Him. Wells’ visions of eschatology in his scientific romances give him both a mode for addressing his readership and a way of dramatizing his own personal convictions.

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James, S. J. (2012). Witnessing the End of the World: H.G. Wells’ Educational Apocalypses. Literature & Theology, 26(4), 459-473.

In his early years H. G. Wells believed that the social and educational reforms accompanying liberal eugenics were sufficient to improve the human species, but by 1937 when he published Star-Begotten he was of the view that biological change, such as occurs through germ cell mutation, would also be needed. The novel reflects this by presenting the reader with a protagonist who believes that enlightened Martians are beaming down gamma rays to Earth, thereby bringing about improvements in humans. However, because Wells himself was not so optimistic, he employed a narrative form that combined fantasy with realism. He also left open the possibility that his protagonist is deluded.

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Maxwell, A. (2012). “Becoming Martianized”: Liberal Eugenics and H. G. Wells' Star-Begotten. English Studies, 93(6), 683-699. doi:10.1080/0013838X.2012.700574

In much of his work, H. G. Wells consciously criticizes the conservativeness of contemporary sports such as cricket and emphasizes cycling as a recreational sport which contributes to the democratisation of social class and gender. This stance is apparent in Wells's first social novel, The Wheels of Chance (1896) which captures the fin-de-siècle passion for cycling but also its social impact. For Wells, Victorian team/spectacle sports such as rugby, football, horseracing, and boxing are overtly competitive, promoting gentlemen's amateur sportsmanship and masculinity. This essay argues that The Wheels of Chance, by featuring recreational cycling as the main motif and casting an unfit draper as the protagonist, is an indirect criticism of gentlemen's sporting activities. It creates a space of amusement where strict rules are shunned in favor of casual pastime, generating carnivalesque games and performances in the Bakhtinian sense. It explores the author's will to change the social order through the carnivalesque, in the ambivalent depiction of Mr Hoopdriver's bi-cycling as play.

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Choi, Y. (2012). The Bi-Cycling Mr Hoopdriver: Counter-Sporting Victorian Reviving the Carnivalesque. Critical Survey, 24(1), 102-115. doi:10.3167/cs.2012.240108

The author reflects on the ethical and moral issues on animals with human genes experiments in Great Britain. He cites the book "The Island of Doctor Moreau," by H. G. Wells, that although fictional, presents the reality of human-animal experimentation ethical issues faced by genetic scientists. He mentions that the Academy of Medical Sciences produced a report that offer recommendations that may lead to government legislation on ethical issues of animals with human genes experimentation.

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(2011, July 28). The legacy of Doctor Moreau. Nature. p. 423. doi:10.1038/475423a.