Wells Sells

H. G. Wells (Herbert George, if you were wondering) was born on this day in 1866.  He died in 1946.  He wrote a lot of various types of fiction and was also a noted social critic and socialist.  In his day, he was one of the world's most highly regarded authors, but now he's considered a children's writer, and is almost solely remembered for his science fiction.

Indeed, today he's called, along with Jules Verne, the Father of Science Fiction. But back in the day Verne didn't have the same reputation Wells had.  Quite a burn they're now put in the same box.  I suppose Wells was more a phenomenon of the turn of the last century, and his stock started to drop while he was still alive.

But still, the stuff he did leave behind is pretty memorable.  Perhaps it doesn't read as well as it once did, but his titles still resonate.  If nothing else, his work lives on in movie after movie.  What am I talking about?  To pick the most obvious, there's The Time Machine, The Island Of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man and The War Of The Worlds.

How many movies and TV shows are based on his stories?  I checked the IMDb and there are more than a hundred.  I think he'd be happy he's doing so well in a technology that didn't exist when he started writing.