HG Wells ,

Herbert George Wells (1866–1946) was an English writer renowned as the 'father of science fiction' for pioneering novels like The Time Machine (1895), The War of the Worlds (1898), and The Invisible Man (1897), blending speculative fiction with social commentary.[1][3] Born into a lower-middle-class family in Kent, he overcame early hardships including apprenticeships and pursued biology studies under T.H. Huxley before achieving literary success with over forty novels, short stories, and non-fiction on history, politics, and socialism.[2][3] A prolific socialist thinker, Wells advocated eugenics early on, predicted world wars, and authored the bestselling Outline of History (1920).[1][5]