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h. g. wells

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1. Wells, H. G. Wells, Herbert George Wellsnoun

   prolific English writer best known for his science-fiction novels; he also wrote on contemporary social problems and wrote popular accounts of history and science (1866-1946)

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1. H. G. Wells

   Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography and autobiography. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and has been called the "father of science fiction."In addition to his fame as a writer, he was prominent in his lifetime as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. A futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web. His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering before these subjects were common in the genre. Brian Aldiss referred to Wells as the "Shakespeare of science fiction", while Charles Fort called him a "wild talent".Wells rendered his works convincing by instilling commonplace detail alongside a single extraordinary assumption per work – dubbed "Wells's law" – leading Joseph Conrad to hail him in 1898 with "O Realist of the Fantastic!". His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), which was his first novel, The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), the military science fiction The War in the Air (1907), and the dystopian When the Sleeper Wakes (1910). Novels of social realism such as Kipps (1905) and The History of Mr Polly (1910), which describe lower-middle-class English life, led to the suggestion that he was a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay (1909), a diagnosis of English society as a whole. Wells was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.Wells's earliest specialised training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a Darwinian context. He was also an outspoken socialist from a young age, often (but not always, as at the beginning of the First World War) sympathising with pacifist views. In his later years, he wrote less fiction and more works expounding his political and social views, sometimes giving his profession as that of journalist. Wells was a diabetic and co-founded the charity The Diabetic Association (known today as Diabetes UK) in 1934.

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1. h. g. wells

   H.G. Wells, whose full name is Herbert George Wells, was a renowned British author born in 1866 and died in 1946. He is widely recognized as one of the key figures in English literature, particularly in the genre of science fiction. Wells penned several publications, however, he is best known for his speculative novels like "The War of the Worlds", "The Time Machine", "The Invisible Man", and "The Island of Doctor Moreau". Wells' work greatly influenced the exploration of futuristic concepts like time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering. Besides fiction, he also wrote on various social and political topics of his time.

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1. H. G. Wells

   Herbert George "H. G." Wells was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is one person sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction", as are Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau. Wells's earliest specialised training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a specifically and fundamentally Darwinian context. He was also from an early date an outspoken socialist, often sympathising with pacifist views. His later works became increasingly political and didactic, and he sometimes indicated on official documents that his profession was that of "Journalist." Most of his later novels were not science fiction. Some described lower-middle class life, leading him to be touted as a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay, a diagnosis of English society as a whole.

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   The numerical value of h. g. wells in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

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   The numerical value of h. g. wells in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of h. g. wells in a Sentence

1. Richard E. Byrd:

   Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

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   Skip Wells died doing what he wanted to do and had chosen to do.

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   Those show clearly where the problem is the biggest and can be used as a guide for people to understand the potential risk for having arsenic in their wells, but the recommendation is that everybody tests.

4. Pavel Molchanov:

   If someone starts drilling oil wells today, the increased supply might be 6 months, 12 months, even years away.

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   These are wells to develop certified reserves.

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