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H. G. Wells (1866-1946) is best remembered for his science fiction novels, which are considered classics of the genre, including The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was born in Bromley, Kent, and worked as a teacher, before studying biology under Thomas Huxley in London.
Foreword
Bruce Sterling
Introduction
Joseph M. Reagle
Preface
I World Encyclopedia
(Lecture delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, November 20th, 1936)
II The Brain Organization of the Modern World
(Lecture delivered in America, October and November, 1937)
III The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopedia
(Contribution to the new Encyclopédic Française, August, 1937)
IV Passage from a Speech to the Congrès Mondial de la Documentation Universelle, Paris, August 20th, 1937
V The Informative Content of Education
(Presidential Address to the Educational Science Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, September 12th, 1937)
Appendix I: Ruffled Teachers
(Sunday Chronicle, September 12th, 1937)
Appendix II: Palestine in Proportion
(Sunday Chronicle, October 3rd, 1937)
Appendix III: The Fall in America 1937
(Collier's, January 28th, 1938)
Appendix IV: Transatlantic Misunderstandings
(Liberty, January 15th, 1938)
Appendix V: The English Speaking World: "As I See It"
(Broadcast talk delivered December 21st, 1937)
