THE REFLECTION OF THE WAR OF THE WORLDS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Abstract

The science  fiction  historian John  Clute describes  Wells  as  "the  most important writer the genre has yet seen", and notes his work  has  been  central  to  both  British  and  American  science  fiction.  Science fiction author and critic Algis Budrys said Wells "remains  the  outstanding  expositor  of  both  the  hope,  and  the  despair,  which are embodied in the technology and which are the major  facts of life in our world". He was nominated for the Nobel Prize  in  Literature in  1921,  1932,  1935,  and  1946.[10] Wells  so  influenced real exploration of Mars that an impact crater on the  planet was named after him.