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Herbert George Wells is the author of the science fiction novel, The Time Machine. “Herbert George Wells’ best known works are The Time Machine (1895), one of the first modern science fiction stories, The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). Wells wrote over a hundred of books, about fifty of them novels.” Herbert George Wells’ childhood, surroundings and life experiences had a great impact on the novel, The Time Machine. Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley on September 21st, 1866. “In his early childhood Wells developed love for literature.” His father was a shopkeeper and a professional cricketer until he broke his leg. When his father's business failed, Wells was apprenticed like his brothers to a draper. He spent the years between 1880 and 1883 in Windsor and Southsea, that is where Wells began to start writing short stories. Wells was in a high class society when he was a child but then moved lower and lower. “Wells had seen both sides of society and that is how he received the inspiration of The Time Machine.” The Time Machine shows a huge class distinction even 800 thousand years into the future. Wells disliked his work as a draper and in 1883 became a pupil-teacher at Midhur