From his “scientific romances” of the 1890s to his death in 1946, British author H. G. Wells was many things: a pioneering science fiction author; a bestselling and sometimes controversial author of realistic fiction; and a popular nonfiction writer on history, science, society, and politics. Essays in this volume explore Wells’ multifaceted career, from his early short stories and novels to later works and film adaptations of his popular fiction.