H.G. Wells was a creator of first magnitude and a science fiction writer with great vision. He predicted world wars of unimaginable destruction, chemicals that would create invisibility,
Even before such exalted minds as Einstein and Stephen Hawkings pondered the vastness of time and time travel, he had already perfected a formula, a machine for travel to future periods of time in The Time Machine.
He wrote of massive machines of war in The War of the Worlds. One prediction we hope will never come to pass was the utter invasion of earth by aliens from another planet with incredibly powerful weapons of war unlike any that mankind had ever seen or made.
He wrote in The Invisible Man of a potion so terrible that it made its creator invisible, and while we haven't found such a potion, our modern techies have come up with ways of bending light so that soon soldiers will become invisible on the battlefield and planes in the air undetectable by eye or radar.
Now at my sister blog, The Baker Street Universe, you can read the original work of H.G. Wells named "The Invisible Man."
Though some of the language may be a bit dated to our more modern minds, the intensity of his vision remains. What happens when a man has so much power that he becomes like a god?
A topic he further explored in
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth, a science fiction novel first published in 1904. Starring among others, Kurt Russell, in a corny movie version, it explored the possibility of food and chemicals altering our genetics and creating giants.
While not dead on, it did demonstrate that what we put into our bodies can affect our health and our stature, as all the new generations of kids being born altered by the chemicals in food they ate has demonstrated.
I find the Invisible Man the most fascinating at this time because it explores man's relationship to his creations and what the trappings of genius can rationalize as to justify behavior that is unacceptable in a more sane society.
Enjoy the story. I know I have. Many times.
John
