H. G. WELLS' VICTORIAN VISIONS:

  • 1 review
  • The Century Club

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  • Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Classes
  • Tickets from £12.00
  • Over 18
  • Wed, 13th Feb 2019 @ 18:30 - 20:30
  • 18:30 - 20:30

This salon is part of the Science Fiction Series at London's exclusive Century Club

   
In 1880, when H.G. Wells left school at the age of thirteen he looked destined for obscurity. Defying expectations, he became one of the most famous writers in the world. 


Join biographer Dr. Michael Sherborne, vice-president of the HG Wells Society, to hear of the strange life of one of the greatest Victorian Visionaries, a man who remained active into the era of the atomic bomb (which he predicted by thirty years) and who wrote some of our best loved and most influential tales of speculative fiction including The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine and The invisible Man.

In this talk, historian Dr Sherborne will put Wells’s scientific romances into the context of his versatile career as an author, explaining how he came to write books such as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds and considering what understanding of life lies behind them. Sherborne will then examine how a hundred years after they were written Wells’s futuristic visions may have dated but remain compelling.

Dr Michael Sherborne
Michael Sherborne is the author of the biography HG Wells: Another Kind of Life. A vice-president of the HG Wells Society, he has written, lectured and broadcast widely on all aspects of Wells’s life and work. He has also written Advanced Level study guides on Shakespeare, Orwell and Huxley, as well as two comic novels. In 2018, he won the Shaw Society Playwriting Award with a humorous one-act play about Brexit.

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Salon ticket
Soho Series at the Century
18:30 - 20:30 £12.00

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The Century Club, 61 - 63, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 6LQ

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Piccadilly Circus (Tube)

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A Curious Invitation

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