Part one of term paper
H.G. Wells and the Shape of Things to Come Heat rays destroying London, time machines sending people far ahead into the future, and men who can't even be seen: these are all things that H.G. Wells uses in his science-fiction novels. His imagination allows the reader to immerse themselves in the book and do, in their mind, what the characters ...

Part two of term paper
... is why he was so popular. John Middleton Murray has described Wells as "the last prophet of bourgeois Europe." He was also Europe's first futurologist. His writing style has been compared with a combination of Charles Darwin and Mary Shelly. Wells coined the phrase "the shape of things to come" and warned people of the dangers of the future in the literature that he wrote. Wells' prophecy of "the shape of things to come" is accomplished in The Time Machine. His ideas about the future are surely det ...