H.G. Wells in the Archive.

This is a landing page for archived posts about H.G. Wells.

Spielberg’s War of the Worlds.
July 4, 2005

“So the question re Spielberg’s War of the Worlds is: Does he keep the original, anticlimactic ending? And if so, how does he dramatise it? Or, does he come up with a brand new, more crowd-pleasing ending – and turn the movie into Independence Day II?” …

H.G. Wells’ Outline of History.
March 15, 2005

“I’ve just reached the Prophet Muhammad, whose vaunted moral perfection the author delineates with an endearingly dry sarcasm. Wells was an opinionated guy, who viewed modern man as the inheritor of all the world’s civilisations, and who was therefore untouched by any cultural sensitivity which might restrain him from pointing out the failings of other races and religions.” …