Herbert George Wells
Herbert George Wells adalah seorang novelis, jurnalis, sosiolog, sekaligus sejarawan berkebangsaan Inggris.[1] Dia lahir di Bromley, Kent, Inggris pada tanggal 21 September tahun 1866 dan meninggal saat 13 Agustus 1946 di London.[1] Dia terkenal karena novel fiksinya, seperti The Time Machine dan The War of the Worlds, kemudian komik yang dibuatnya, antara lain Tono-Bungay dan The History of Mr. Polly.[1] Bersama dengan Jules Verne, Wells disebut sebagai "Bapak Fiksi Ilmiah".[2]
H.G. Wells | |
|---|---|
 Wells tahun 1920 | |
| Pekerjaan | Novelis, pengajar, sejarawan, jurnalis |
| Kebangsaan | British |
| Genre | Science fiction (notably social science fiction) |
| Karya terkenal | The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, The Shape of Things to Come |
Dia dibesarkan oleh keluarga yang miskin.[1] Lalu saat usianya mencapai 14 tahun, dia bekerja pada pedagang kain di Windsor, namun dia segera dipecat oleh tuannya.[1] Kemudian menjadi asisten seorang ahli kimia, bekerja pada pedangan kain lagi, sampai akhirnya ketika tahun 1883, dia menjadi penjaga pintu di Midhurst Grammar School.[1] Selanjutnya saat umurnya 18, Wells memperoleh beasiswa untuk belajar biologi di Normal School of Science (kemudian disebut Royal College) di Kensington selatan, London.[1] Wells lulus dari London University tahun 1888.[1]
Referensi
sunting- ^ a b c d e f g h "H.G. Wells". Encyclopedia Britannica. Diakses tanggal 15 Juni 2014.
- ^ Adam Charles Roberts (2000), "The History of Science Fiction": Page 48 in Science Fiction, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-19204-8.
Bacaan lanjut
sunting- Dickson, Lovat. H.G. Wells: His Turbulent Life & Times. 1969.
- Gilmour, David. The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002 (paperback, ISBN 0-374-18702-9); 2003 (paperback, ISBN 0-374-52896-9).
- Gomme, A. W., Mr. Wells as Historian. Glasgow: MacLehose, Jackson, and Co., 1921.
- Gosling, John. Waging the War of the Worlds. Jefferson, North Carolina, McFarland, 2009 (paperback, ISBN 0-7864-4105-4).
- Mauthner, Martin. German Writers in French Exile, 1933–1940, London: Vallentine and Mitchell, 2007, ISBN 978-0-85303-540-4.
Pranala luar
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Sources—collections
- Karya H. G. Wells di Project Gutenberg, pre-1923.
- Works by H. G. Wells at Project Gutenberg Australia, post-1923.
- Works by H. G. Wells in free audio format from LibriVox.
- Works by H. G. Wells at Internet Archive (scanned books original editions color illustrated)
- (Inggris) Herbert George Wells di Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- A Short History of the World, at bartleby.com.
- Works by H. G. Wells Diarsipkan 2011-03-25 di Wayback Machine. to read online at ReadmeFree.
Sources—letters, essays and interviews
- Film interview with H.G. Wells Diarsipkan 2010-08-20 di Wayback Machine.
- "Stephen Crane. From an English Standpoint" Diarsipkan 2013-11-03 di Wayback Machine., by Wells, 1900.
- Rabindranath Tagore: In conversation with H. G. Wells Diarsipkan 2000-03-09 di Wayback Machine.. Rabindranath Tagore and Wells conversing in Geneva in 1930.
- "Introduction" Diarsipkan 2006-09-24 di Wayback Machine., to W. N. P. Barbellion's The Journal of a Disappointed Man, by Wells, 1919.
- "Woman and Primitive Culture", by Wells, 1895.
- Letter Diarsipkan 2011-07-18 di Wayback Machine., to M. P. Shiel, by Wells, 1937.
- New Statesman – In the footsteps of H G Wells at www.newstatesman.com, H.G. Wells called for a Human Rights Act.
Biografi
- H. G. Wells: The Man and the Author. A biography of H. G. Wells by Roman Allemann (2000).
- "H. G. Wells". In Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
Critical essays
- "An Appreciation of H. G. Wells", by Mary Austin, 1911.
- "Socialism and the Family" (1906) by Belfort Bax, Part 1, Part 2.
- "H. G. Wells warned us how it would feel to fight a War of the Worlds" Diarsipkan 2007-03-09 di Wayback Machine., by Niall Ferguson, in The Telegraph, 24 June 2005.
- "H. G. Wells's Idea of a World Brain: A Critical Re-assessment" Diarsipkan 2006-07-16 di Wayback Machine., by W. Boyd Rayward, in Journal of the American Society for Information Science 50 (15 May 1999): 557–579
- "Mr H. G. Wells and the Giants", by G. K. Chesterton, from his book Heretics (1908).
- "The Internet: a world brain?", by Martin Gardner, in Skeptical Inquirer, Jan–Feb 1999.
- "Science Fiction: The Shape of Things to Come" Diarsipkan 2006-08-23 di Wayback Machine., by Mark Bould, in The Socialist Review, May 2005.
- "Who needs Utopia? A dialogue with my utopian self (with apologies, and thanks, to H. G. Wells)", by Gregory Claeys in Spaces of Utopia: An Electronic Journal, no 1, Spring 2006.
- "When H. G. Wells Split the Atom: A 1914 Preview of 1945", by Freda Kirchwey, in The Nation, posted 4 September 2003 (original 18 August 1945 issue).
- "Wells, Hitler and the World State", by George Orwell. First published: Horizon. GB, London. August 1941.
- "War of the Worldviews", by John J. Miller, in The Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal, 21 June 2005.
- "Wells's Autobiography", by John Hart, from New International, Vol.2 No.2, March 1935, pp. 75–76
- "History in the Science Fiction of H. G. Wells" Diarsipkan 2006-11-23 di Wayback Machine., by Patrick Parrinder, Cycnos, 22.2 (2006).
- "FROM THE WORLD BRAIN TO THE WORLDWIDE WEB" Diarsipkan 2007-09-28 di Wayback Machine., by Martin Campbell-Kelly, Gresham College Lecture, 9 November 2006.
- "The Beginning of Wisdom: On Reading H. G. Wells" Diarsipkan 2008-07-05 di Wayback Machine., by Vivian Gornick, "Boston Review", 31.1 (2007).
- John Hammond, The Complete List of Short Stories of H. G. Wells Diarsipkan 2001-02-22 di Archive.is
- Website examining the legacy of The War Of The Worlds
- "H.G. Wells Predictions Ring True, 143 Years Later" at National Geographic