Flying Mud
Patrick Parrinder
- The Invisible Man: The Life and Liberties of H.G. Wells by Michael Coren
Bloomsbury, 240 pp, £20.00, January 1993, ISBN 0 7475 1158 6
Late in 1900 H.G. Wells sat down to draft the series of articles which were to make his reputation as the foremost prophet of the new century. His working title was ‘Speculations’ or ‘The New Prospectus’, and the essays were later published as Anticipations. His friend Arnold Bennett referred to them mockingly as ‘Uncle’s-dissipations’, but for Wells futurology was anything but a sideline. In fact he was tempted to regard the scientific romances and humorous journalism with which he had made his mark in the Nineties as little more than dissipations.
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