H. G. Wells H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, including even two books on war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called a "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. During his own lifetime, however, he was most prominent as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on
The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper motivation in fiction, mentions of geothermal energy, and wider coverage of scientific news, while the unsuccessful ones include simplified spelling of English, a 13-month reformed calendar, the extinction of gorillas, and hints at some form of world government. An adaptation of the story formed part of the first episode of the four-hour miniseries "The Infinite Worlds of H. G. Wells" released in 2001 by the Hallmark Channel, with Arthur Brownlow played by Mark Lewis Jones. The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper "The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper" is a short story by H. G. Wells which was first published in