He even foresaw a federal Europe, but thought the UK would be happier to be involved with the US and the English-speaking dominions.
Writing in the late 19th and very early 20th Centuries, he anticipated space travel, aerial warfare, motor transport that led to commuting and suburban spread, changing sexual mores, world wars, and a “world brain” that held all the information. He managed to make the impossible seem believable, and his record of prediction is impressive. He wrote novels, especially science fiction stories that anticipated the future. His international fame is demonstrated by his appearance in the cover of Time magazine on the day before his 60th birthday. Described as the most important English writer of his age, H G Wells was born on September 21st, 1866, and died in 1946, shortly before his 80th birthday.
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