H. G. Wells bibliography

H. G. Wells was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His writing career spanned more than sixty years, and his early science fiction novels earned him the title (along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback) of "The Father of Science Fiction".^[1]

(1895). Fragments from the serial form in The New Review which were generally excluded in the book version can be found in the anthology edited by Robert M. Philmus, 1975, as can the untitled version published in seven instalments in the National Observer 17 March – 23 June 1894.^[2]

The Time Machine

(1895)

The Wonderful Visit

(1896)

The Island of Doctor Moreau

(1896)

The Wheels of Chance

(1897)

The Invisible Man

(1898)

The War of the Worlds

(1899)

When the Sleeper Wakes

(1900)

Love and Mr Lewisham

(1901)

The First Men in the Moon

(1902)

The Sea Lady

(1904)

The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

(1905)

Kipps

(1905)

A Modern Utopia

(1906)

In the Days of the Comet

(1908)

The War in the Air

(1909)

Tono-Bungay

(1909)

Ann Veronica

(1910)

The History of Mr Polly

(1910) – revised edition of When the Sleeper Wakes (1899)

The Sleeper Awakes

(1911)

The New Machiavelli

(1912)

Marriage

(1913)

The Passionate Friends

(1914)

The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman

(1914)

The World Set Free

(1915)

Bealby: A Holiday

(1915) (as Reginald Bliss)

Boon

(1915)

The Research Magnificent

(1916)

Mr Britling Sees It Through

(1917)

The Soul of a Bishop

(1918)

Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education

(1919)

The Undying Fire

The Secret Places of the Heart (1922)

(1923)

Men Like Gods

(1924)

The Dream

(1925)

Christina Alberta's Father

(1926)

The World of William Clissold

(1927)

Meanwhile

(1928)

Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island

(1930)

The Autocracy of Mr. Parham

(1932)

The Bulpington of Blup

(1933)

The Shape of Things to Come

(1936)

The Croquet Player

(1937)

Brynhild

(1937)

Star Begotten

The Camford Visitation (1937), novella

Apropos of Dolores (1938)

The Brothers (1938)

(1939)

The Holy Terror

Babes in the Darkling Wood (1940)

(1940)

All Aboard for Ararat

You Can't Be Too Careful (1941)

Short stories[edit]

All short stories[edit]

Note: The stories are listed in alphabetical order of title within each year, and not in order of their publication during the year.

The King Who Was a King: The Book of a Film (1929 – scenario for a film which was never made)

(1935 – adaptation of The Shape of Things to Come and The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind)

Things to Come

(1936)

Man Who Could Work Miracles

The New Faust (in , December 1936 – unmade adaptation of "The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham")

Nash's Pall Mall Magazine

Film Stories (1940 - collection of Things to Come and Man Who Could Work Miracles)

Published versions of film scripts and scenarios written by Wells:

The War That Will End War (1914)

(1914); US title: Social Forces in England and America

An Englishman Looks at the World

The Elements of Reconstruction (1916) – published under the pseudonym D. P.

(1917)

God the Invisible King

(1920)

Russia in the Shadows

(1925)

A Year of Prophesying

(1928)

The Way the World is Going

(1935)

The New America: The New World

"Zoological Retrogression" (1891)

"The Rediscovery of the Unique" (1891)

"Ancient Experiments in Co-Operation" (1892)

"On Extinction" (1893)

"The Man of the Year Million" (1893)

"The Sun God and the Holy Stars" (1894)

"Province of Pain" (1894)

"Life in the Abyss" (1894)

"Another Basis for Life" (1894)

"The Rate of Change in Species" (1894)

"The Biological Problem of To-day" (1894)

"The 'Cyclic' Delusion" (1894)

"The Flat Earth Again" Pall Mall Gazette (2 April 1894)

[2]

"Bio-Optimism" (1895)

"Bye-Products in Evolution" (1895)

"Death" (1895)

"The Duration of Life" (1895)

"The Visibility of Change in the Moon" (1895)

"The Limits of Individual Plasticity" Saturday Review (18 January 1895) later incorporated in ^[2]

The Island Of Dr Moreau

"Human Evolution, an Artificial Process" (1896)

"Intelligence on Mars" (1896)

"Concerning Skeletons" (1896)

"The Possible Individuality of Atoms" (1896)

"Morals and Civilisation" (1897)

"On Comparative Theology" (1898)

"" (1902)

The Discovery of the Future

"The English House of the Future" (1903; several other authors)

"Skepticism of the Instrument" (1903)

"The So-Called Science of Sociology" (1906)

[11]

"" (illustrated by William Robinson Leigh) (1908)

The Things that Live on Mars

"The Grisly Folk" (1921)

"Mr. Wells and Mr. Vowles" (1926)

[12]

"The Red Dust a Fact!" (1927)

"Democracy Under Revision" (1927)

"Wells Speaks Some Plain Words to us," New York Times, 16 October 1927

"Common Sense of World Peace" (1929)

"Foretelling the Future" (1938)

"Crux Ansata - An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church" (1943 Penguin Books)

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. WELLS, H(erbert) G(eorge).

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