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* RequiredSecondaryPowers: "The New Accelerator" attempts to show the dangers that would result if someone were to develop the ability to move at super-speed. (ie, clothes catching on fire due to the friction.)
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Despite the comparisons between him and Verne above, his story "The New Accelerator" attempts to realistically show the dangers that would result if someone were to develop the ability to move at super-speed. (ie, clothes catching on fire due to the friction.)
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His most famous works have been [[TheFilmOfTheBook adapted into film]] multiple times. ''The Time Machine'', ''The Island of Doctor Moreau'', ''The Invisible Man'' and ''The War of the Worlds'' are probably the best-known. He also wrote well-regarded realistic novels about lower middle-class English life, one of which, ''Kipps'', was adapted into the London and Broadway musical hit ''Theatre/HalfASixpence''.
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His most famous works have been [[TheFilmOfTheBook adapted into film]] multiple times. ''The Time Machine'', ''The Island of Doctor Moreau'', ''The Invisible Man'' and ''The War of the Worlds'' are probably the best-known. He also wrote well-regarded realistic novels about lower middle-class English life, one of which, ''Kipps'', was adapted into the London and Broadway musical hit ''Theatre/HalfASixpence''.\n
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He is also considered a founding father of commercial [[WarGaming wargames]]. He and some of his adult friends started playing with toy soldiers, and starting codifying rules. He felt it was better than fighting a real war, because "Tin soldiers don't leave behind tin widows and tin orphans." Wells eventually published ''Little Wars'' which contains the story of the creation of the game, the many balance and GameBreaker issues they ran into, and a suggested set of large scale miniature rules. ''Little Wars'' is still required reading for prospective game designers. Another over-looked aspect of his life is that in his 'middle period' from around 1900-1920 he authored fiction that mostly lacked any science-fiction elements, such as ''Anne Veronica'' and ''The History of Mr. Polly''.
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He is also considered a founding father of commercial [[WarGaming wargames]]. He and some of his adult friends started playing with toy soldiers, and starting codifying rules. He felt it was better than fighting a real war, because "Tin soldiers don't leave behind tin widows and tin orphans." Wells eventually published ''Little Wars'' which contains the story of the creation of the game, the many balance and GameBreaker issues they ran into, and a suggested set of large scale miniature rules. ''Little Wars'' is still required reading for prospective game designers. Another over-looked aspect of his life is that in his 'middle period' from around 1900-1920 he authored fiction that mostly lacked any science-fiction elements, such as ''Anne Veronica'' and Veronica'', ''The History of Mr. Polly''.
Polly'', and ''Kipps'', which was later adapted into the London and Broadway musical hit ''Theatre/HalfASixpence''.
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His most famous works have been [[TheFilmOfTheBook adapted into film]] multiple times. ''The Time Machine'', ''The Island of Doctor Moreau'', ''The Invisible Man'' and ''The War of the Worlds'' are probably the best-known. He also wrote well-regarded realistic novels about contemporary English life, one of which, ''Kipps'', was adapted into the London and Broadway musical hit ''Theatre/HalfASixpence''.
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His most famous works have been [[TheFilmOfTheBook adapted into film]] multiple times. ''The Time Machine'', ''The Island of Doctor Moreau'', ''The Invisible Man'' and ''The War of the Worlds'' are probably the best-known. He also wrote well-regarded realistic novels about contemporary lower middle-class English life, one of which, ''Kipps'', was adapted into the London and Broadway musical hit ''Theatre/HalfASixpence''.
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* AuthorFilibuster: At one point in ''Kipps'', the narrator interrupts a scene to deliver a monologue chiding the reader and setting out Wells's social and political views.
-->What is the good of keeping up the idyllic sham and pretending that ill-educated, misdirected people "get along very well," and that all this is harmlessly funny and nothing more? You think I'm going to write fat, silly, grinning novels about half-educated, under-trained people and keep it up all the time, that the whole thing's nothing but funny! As I think of them lying unhappily there in the darkness, my vision pierces the night. See what I can see! Above them, brooding over them, I tell you there is a monster, a lumpish monster, like some great, clumsy griffin thing, like the Crystal Palace labyrinthodon, like Coote, like the leaden goddess Dulness Pope Abhorred, like some fat, proud flunkey, like pride, like indolence, like all that is darkening and heavy and obstructive in life. It is matter and darkness, it is the anti-soul, Stupidity. My Kippses live in its shadow.
-->What is the good of keeping up the idyllic sham and pretending that ill-educated, misdirected people "get along very well," and that all this is harmlessly funny and nothing more? You think I'm going to write fat, silly, grinning novels about half-educated, under-trained people and keep it up all the time, that the whole thing's nothing but funny! As I think of them lying unhappily there in the darkness, my vision pierces the night. See what I can see! Above them, brooding over them, I tell you there is a monster, a lumpish monster, like some great, clumsy griffin thing, like the Crystal Palace labyrinthodon, like Coote, like the leaden goddess Dulness Pope Abhorred, like some fat, proud flunkey, like pride, like indolence, like all that is darkening and heavy and obstructive in life. It is matter and darkness, it is the anti-soul, Stupidity. My Kippses live in its shadow.
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His most famous works have been [[TheFilmOfTheBook adapted into film]] multiple times. ''The Time Machine'', ''The Island of Doctor Moreau'', ''The Invisible Man'' and ''The War of the Worlds'' are probably the best-known. He also wrote well-regarded realistic novels about contemporary English life, one of which, ''Kipps'', was adapted into the London and Broadway musical hit ''Theatre/HalfASixpence''
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His most famous works have been [[TheFilmOfTheBook adapted into film]] multiple times. ''The Time Machine'', ''The Island of Doctor Moreau'', ''The Invisible Man'' and ''The War of the Worlds'' are probably the best-known. He also wrote well-regarded realistic novels about contemporary English life, one of which, ''Kipps'', was adapted into the London and Broadway musical hit ''Theatre/HalfASixpence''
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His most famous works have been [[TheFilmOfTheBook adapted into film]] multiple times. ''The Time Machine'', ''The Island of Doctor Moreau'', ''The Invisible Man'' and ''The War of the Worlds'' are probably the best-known.
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* TankGoodness: The UrExample in modern fiction can be found in Wells's short story "The Land Ironclads", which foresaw the tank's paradigm-shifting impact on warfare. Among the predictions is the potential for (newly invented at the time) continuous track systems to allow massive armed and armored vehicles to [[TheJuggernaut unstoppably plow over men and defenses alike]].
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* TankGoodness: The UrExample in modern fiction can be found in Wells's short story "The Land Ironclads", which foresaw the tank's paradigm-shifting impact on warfare. Among the predictions is the potential for (newly invented at the time) continuous track systems [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedrail_wheel Pedrail wheels]] to allow massive armed and armored vehicles to [[TheJuggernaut unstoppably plow over men and defenses alike]].alike]]. Though the pedrails would be replaced by caterpillar tracks and the steam engines replaced with petrol, the idea of a [[MightyGlacier plodding armored behemoth]] would [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne soon come to real life.]]
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As one of the founders of science fiction, he often shows up in modern sci-fi works as a HistoricalDomainCharacter. Notably he was played by Creator/MalcolmMcDowell in the film ''Film/TimeAfterTime'' and was [[GenderFlip Gender Flipped]] for the [=SyFy=] series ''Series/Warehouse13'', played by Creator/JaimeMurray. He also appears in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E5Timelash Timelash]]", played by David Chandler, though he was depicted very inaccurately.
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As one of the founders of science fiction, he often shows up in modern sci-fi works as a HistoricalDomainCharacter. Notably he was played by Creator/MalcolmMcDowell in the film ''Film/TimeAfterTime'' and was [[GenderFlip Gender Flipped]] for the [=SyFy=] series ''Series/Warehouse13'', played by Creator/JaimeMurray. He also appears in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E5Timelash Timelash]]", played by David Chandler, though he was depicted very inaccurately.\n
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* OutDamnedSpot: In "The Moth", a probably illusionary moth haunts the protagonist following the rather pitiful death of his hated scientific rival, finally landing him in an insane asylum.
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* NoPronunciationGuide: The main character of ''The Man Who Could Work Miracles'' is named Fotheringay, which is one of those traditional English names that are infamously pronounced nothing close to how they are spelt: in this case, “Fungi”[[note]]by which we mean the original pronunciation in Classical Latin, NOT any of the later Anglicized ones[[/note]].
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* ShownTheirWork: a number of his works, both science fiction and otherwise, involve plot elements and details that are accurate to the day's science. In certain cases this can be easy to miss from a modern perspective, such as ''The Time Machine'''s depiction of a far-future Earth baked by a dying, bloated Sun (based on then-cutting-edge theoretical work on star life cycles).
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* TankGoodness: The UrExample in modern fiction can be found in Wells's short story "The Land Ironclads", which forsaw foresaw the tank's paradigm-shifting impact on warfare. Among the predictions is the potential for (newly invented at the time) continuous track systems to allow massive armed and armored vehicles to [[TheJuggernaut unstoppably plow over men and defenses alike]].
