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A MAN FOR ALL TIMES: H.G. WELLS' SCI-FI VISIONS RULE PAST, PRESENTAND FUTURE

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From: The Columbian
Date: 20020308
Author:DAVID GERMAIN, Associated Press

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LOS ANGELES -- Think of all the starship Enterprise's trips through time; the alien aggressors of "Independence Day" or "Invaders From Mars"; the invisibility element behind "Hollow Man" or "Predator"; the notion of hybrid humans in "The Fly"; the centuries-long snoozes in "Buck Rogers," "Planet of the Apes" or even Woody Allen's comic "Sleeper." H.G. Wells was there first, and a century after he wrote his best- known works, the stories remain a standard by which all later science fiction ...

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