H. G. Wells Society H. G. Wells Society There have been two groups called the H.G. Wells Society, both set up to support the ideas of Herbert George Wells (1866–1946). The first "H.G. Wells Society" was set up in 1934 to promote Wells' political ideas. Its members included Gerald Heard, Olaf Stapledon, Sylvia Pankhurst, Eden Paul and Vera Brittain. The group later changed its name to "Cosmopolis", then the "Open Conspiracy". In 1936 it merged with the Federation of Progressive Societies and Individuals. The later H.G. Wells Society, founded in 1960, is an international association composed of people interested in the life, work and
H. G. Wells really happen, today referred to as "the plausible impossible" and "suspension of disbelief". While neither invisibility nor time travel was new in speculative fiction, Wells added a sense of realism to the concepts which the readers were not familiar with. He conceived the idea of using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposely and selectively forwards or backwards in time. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle. He explained that while writing "The Time Machine", he realized that "the more impossible the story I had to tell,