HG Wells
Considered to be the father of science fiction, Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley on September 21, 1866.
He first achieved success in 1895 with The Time Machine. Wells followed this with The Island of Dr Moreau (1895), The Invisible Man (1897) and perhaps his most famous popular work, The War of the Worlds (1898).
Living until 1946, Wells witnessed a world more terrible than any of his imaginative visions, and he bitterly observed: “Reality has taken a leaf from my book and set itself to supercede me.”
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