fiction, "The Time Machine", in 1895. In it, Wells traces the evolutionary future of life on Earth. This work was followed the next year by "The Island of Dr. Moreau" ­ his allegorical critique of civilization in which a scientist populates his remote island with animals surgically transformed into humans.
In 1898, Wells published his science-fiction classic "The War of the Worlds", and introduced a staple of scifi tales to come, the "Alien Invaders of Earth." In both his fiction and non-fiction writings, Wells became increasingly preoccupied with the prospects of humanityΓÇÖs future. The "Discovery of the Future", a lecture published in 1902, marked a turning point in his thinking, abandoning the whimsical and imaginative romances
