HG Wells, anarchist - socialist sci-fi author

"That Anarchist world, I admit, is our dream; we do believe -- well, I, at any rate, believe this present world, this planet, will some day bear a race beyond our most exalted and temerarious dreams ... Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust laws and poisonous and hateful suggestions and prejudices, create a system of social right-dealing and a tradition of right-feeling and action. Socialism is the schoolroom of true and noble Anarchism, wherein by training and restraint we shall make free men."
HG Wells; New Worlds for Old (1908)

1866 HG Wells (Herbert George Wells; d. August 13, 1946), English social activist and writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The Island of Dr Moreau and The Time Machine.

Wells also wrote a number of Utopian novels, one of which was The Shape of Things to Come (1933) which he later adapted for the 1936 Sir Alexander Korda film, Things to Come. Some of his books led Fabian Society leaders George Bernard Shaw, Beatrice Webb and Sidney Webb to invite him to join the society, an invitation he accepted.

Wells had numerous love affairs, his lovers including American contraception activist Margaret Sanger and American feminist author Rebecca West ...

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