Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

H. G. Wells (1866?1946) was a professional writer and journalist who published more than a hundred books. He is widely considered the father of science fiction.
Gillian Beer is president of the British Comparative Literature Association.
Michael Foot is a former leader of the Labour Party in England and the author of numerous volumes of literary criticism.
Simon J. James is a lecturer in Victorian literature at the University of Durham.
John S. Partington is the editor of "The Wellsian," the annual journal of the H. G. Wells Society.