For Further Reading
Other Works by H. G. Wells
The Time Machine (1895)
The Wonderful Visit (1895)
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)
The Invisible Man (1897)
Tales of Space and Time (1899)
When the Sleeper Wakes (1899)
Love and Mr. Lewisham (1900)
The First Men in the Moon (1901)
Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical
and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought
(1902)
The Food of the Gods (1904)
Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul
(1905)
A Modern Utopia (1905)
New Worlds for Old (1908)
The War in the Air (1908)
Ann Veronica (1909)
Tono-Bungay (1909)
The History of Mr. Polly (1910)
The New Machiavelli (1911)
Marriage (1912)
Mr. Britling Sees It Through (1916)
The Outline of History (1920, with
several subsequent revised editions)
Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island
(1928)
The Science of Life (1929—1930)
The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind
(1931)
The Bulpington of Blup (1932)
Experiment in Autobiography: Discoveries and
Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1866) (1934)
Mind at the End of Its Tether
(1945)
Other Editions of The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds: A Critical Text of the
1898 London First Edition, with an Introduction, Illustrations, and
Appendices. Edited by Leon Stover. Jefferson, NC: MacFarland,
2001.
Wells, H. G. The Complete Science Fiction
Treasury of H. G. Wells. With a preface by the author.
Originally published as Seven Famous Novels, New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. Reprint: New York: Avenel Books, 1978.
Biographies
Coren, Michael. The Invisible Man: The Life
and Liberties of H. G. Wells. New York: Atheneum, 1993.
Dickson, Lovat. H. G. Wells: His Turbulent
Life and Times. London: Macmillan, 1969.
Foot, Michael. The History of Mr. Wells.
London: Doubleday, 1995.
Mackenzie, Norman, and Jeanne Mackenzie. H.
G. Wells: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster,
1973.
West, Anthony. H. G. Wells: Aspects of a
Life. New York: Random House, 1984.
Criticism
Borges, Jorge Luis. “The First Wells.” In
Borges, a Reader: A Selection from the Writings of Jorge Luis
Borges, edited by Emir Rodriguez Monegal and Alastair Reid. New
York: Dutton, 1981.
Hillegas, Mark R. The Future as Nightmare: H.
G. Wells and the Antiutopians. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1967.
Scheick, William J., ed. The Critical
Response to H. G. Wells. West-port, CT: Greenwood Press,
1995.
Suvin, Darko, and Robert M. Philmus, eds. H.
G. Wells and Modern Science Fiction. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell
University Press, 1977.