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H. G. Wells
Family
• Wells was born into a poor family of
shopkeepers in Kent in 1866
• fourth and last child of Joseph Wells (a
former domestic gardener, and at the time
shopkeeper and amateur cricketer) and
his wife Sarah Neal (a former domestic
servant),
He left his teaching position
when he was in his early
thirties to write The Time
Machine, which was
published in 1895.
The huge success of
this novel led him to
follow his dreams of
authorship as he
continued to write
science fiction novels
with The Invisible Man,
War of the Worlds, and
The Island of Dr.
Moreau.
Womanizer?
• In 1891 Wells married his cousin Isabel Mary Wells
• Left her in 1894 for one of his students, Amy Catherine
Robbins, whom he married in 1895.
– had two sons by Amy: George Philip (known as 'Gip') in 1901 and
Frank Richard in 1903.[6]
• During his marriage, had liaisons with a number of
women
– Margaret Sanger
– and novelist Elizabeth von Arnim.
– writer Amber Reeves
• had a daughter, Anna-Jane
– feminist Rebecca West, twenty-six years his junior
• Had a son, Anthony West
– had liaisons with Odette Keun and Moura Budberg.
An Artist?
• As one method of self-expression, Wells
tended to sketch a lot.
A Player?
• regarded by gamers and hobbyists as "the
Father of Miniature War gaming."
• As he got older,
Wells began
predicting the end of
society and died at
the age of 80, soon
after the detonation
of the first atomic
bomb.
In death…
• Wells was a diabetic and a co-founder in
1934 of what is now Diabetes UK, the
leading charity for people living with
diabetes in the UK.
• Some reports indicate the cause of death
was diabetes or liver cancer.
Works Cited
• http://www.novelguide.com/thetimemachin
e/index.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H_G_Wells
Ray Bradury
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THE ILLUSTRATED MAN
FAHRENHEIT 451
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) - psedonym Paul French
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
The Three Laws of Robotics
• The movie faithfully quotes Asimov's three laws
of robotics:
• A robot may not injure a human being, or,
through inaction, allow a human being to come
to harm.
• A robot must obey the orders given it by human
beings except where such orders would conflict
with the First Law.
• A robot must protect its own existence as long
as such protection does not conflict with the First
or Second Law.
"I received the fundamentals of my education
in school, but that was not enough. My real
education, the superstructure, the details, the
true architecture, I got out of the public
library. For an impoverished child whose
family could not afford to buy books, the
library was the open door to wonder and
achievement, and I can never be sufficiently
grateful that I had the wit to charge through
that door and make the most of it."
(from I. Asimov, 1994)