什麼是威爾斯

Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge)

英國小說家、新聞工作者、社會學家和史學家。曾是着名生物學家赫胥黎（T. H. Huxley）的學生。他的作品文體生動、幽默，頗爲成功，並開創了新的科幻小說領域。《時間機器》（1895）使他一舉成名，隨後又發表一系列科幻小說，包括最着名的《星際戰爭》（1898）。威爾斯第二個時期的作品從預言未來轉向改造現實。這時期的着名作品中有《託諾－邦蓋》（1909）和《波里先生的歷史》（1910）。第一次世界大戰後他看到各國政治家未能實現正義的和平，曾寄希望於國際聯盟，並企圖用作品喚起人們重視世界秩序不穩定的危險，如《世界史綱》（1920）。他晚期的作品表現出一種悲觀的世界觀，他給英國小說帶來新的活力，也使人們認識到20世紀技術世界的危險與希望。

1866～1946年

Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge)

English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian. While studying science under T.H. Huxley in London, Wells formulated a romantic conception of the subject that would inspire the inventive and influential science-fiction and fantasy novels for which he is best known, including the epochal The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He simultaneously took on a public role as an agitator for progressive causes, including the League of Nations. He later abandoned science fiction and drew on memories of his lower-middle-class early life in works including the novel Tono-Bungay (1908) and the comic The History of Mr. Polly (1910). World War I shook his faith in human progress, prompting him to promote popular education through nonfiction works including The Outline of History (1920). The Shape of Things to Come (1933) was an antifascist warning. Though a sense of humor reappears in Experiment in Autobiography (1934), most of his late works reveal a pessimistic, even bitter outlook.