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His future is now - Talk about time travel! H.G. Wells saw our world coming.(Arts and Lifestyle)

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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 20020303
Author:Verniere, James

H.G. Wells, author of the landmark 1895 novel "The Time Machine,'' didn't invent the 20th century. It only seems that way. Since his work has spawned 50 or so screen adaptations, including a DreamWorks/Warner Bros. remake of "The Time Machine'' opening on Friday, Wells has been a gold mine for the 20th century's most popular art form, too.

Born in 1866 in a working-class suburb of London, Herbert George Wells was apprenticed to a draper before earning a scholarship and studying biology under staunch Darwinist T.H. Huxley and becoming the author of scholarly books and ...

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