The Outline of History

Wells' first non-fiction book, forecasting what mechanical transport would do to cities, class and war. He got the sprawling suburb and the armoured vehicle right decades early.

H. G. Wells

A lecture delivered at the Royal Institution arguing that the future can be studied as rigorously as the past. Short, and the clearest statement of why Wells wrote what he wrote.

H. G. Wells

Half novel and half argument, this imagines a planet identical to Earth except that it is organized properly, then interrogates its own design. Wells' most detailed political blueprint.

H. G. Wells

A short socialist pamphlet that argues its whole case through the state of people's shoes. Fifteen pages, and the most direct piece of political writing Wells produced.

H. G. Wells

Wells sets out his own working philosophy, from what he thinks can be known to how he thinks a person should live. Written as a personal statement rather than a system.

H. G. Wells