British writer who invented modern science fiction — The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Island of Doctor Moreau — and wrote realistic social novels and political prophecy, making him the dominant English-language popular intellectual of the early 20th century.
Created the genre templates of modern science fiction — time travel, alien invasion, genetic engineering, invisible man — demonstrating that speculative fiction could explore the psychological and social anxieties of modernity through extrapolation.
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