Conrad admired the way Wells "contrives to give over humanity into the clutches of the Impossible and yet manages to keep it down (or up) to its humanity, to its flesh, blood, sorrow, folly". He was associated with the Fabian Society and was mentored by Shaw (with whom he soon fell out). Despite or because of his socialism, his novels are almost universally pessimistic about human nature and the future, if prophetically accurate he predicted the invention of tanks, aerial bombing, nuclear war, gas warfare, lasers and industrial robots. Wells, a novelist, journalist, sociologist and historian, is often referred to as the father of science fiction. When Orson Welles broadcast a dramatised version of The War of the Worlds on American radio, it caused widespread panic, with many people evacuating their homes in the belief that New York was being invaded by aliens from another planet. Teaching at a correspondence college Did you know? He taught in private schools for four years and finally obtained his degree in 1890. His interest faltered and he left without a degree in 1887. He won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London where he studied biology under TH Huxley. Apprenticed to a draper at 14, at 17 Wells became a teacher/pupil at a grammar school.
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