H.G. Wells, the pioneer in the literary field of science fiction, practically invented the modern version of the genre. Inspired by Jules Verne, most famous for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, H.G. Wells invented the notion of being less concerned with the gadgets of science fiction, and more concerned with the people that lived within it. Verne, and authors like him, were fixated on the technology and gave lengthy explanations of every piece one would encounter in his novels. Wells did away with that entirely, making the readability of sci-fi accessible for the average person, not so concerned with gadgets, but with story.
His first book, The Time Machine, was extremely popular and remains one of the most popular pieces of science fiction 75 years after its first publication.
I was very lucky to be involved in, as far as my producer and I can tell, one of the very first stage productions of this classic story, of a humble scientist, who sick of the war that ravages his country, invents a machine and travels over 800,000 years into the future to escape the hopelessness he feels.
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