Today is the 150th birthday of science fiction writer Herbert George Wells, better known as H.G. Wells. He was born in Bromley, England and read voraciously as a child. Wells graduated from London University in 1888 and published a biology textbook in 1893. Two years later he completed his first novel, The Time Machine, in which an English inventor journeys hundreds of thousands of years into the future. Over the next decade his impressive output included The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds.
