H. G. Wells Society many years. It has also boasted a number of distinguished vice-presidents through the years including Arthur C. Clarke, Michael Foot, Brian Aldiss, Christopher Priest and Stephen Baxter. 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
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