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The Time Traveller is an amateur inventor and scientist living in London. Having demonstrated to friends, using a miniature model, that time is a fourth dimension, and that a suitable apparatus can move in time, he builds a larger machine capable of carrying himself. This new production stars Robert Glenister as the Time Traveller, with William Gaunt as H. G. Wells.
About the Author
Herbert George Wells was born to a working class family in Kent, England. Young Wells received a spotty education, interrupted by several illnesses and family difficulties, and became a draper's apprentice as a teenager. The headmaster of Midhurst Grammar School, where he had spent a year, arranged for him to return as an "usher," or student teacher. Wells earned a government scholarship in 1884, to study biology under at the Normal School of Science. Wells earned his bachelor of science and doctor of science degrees at the University of London. After marrying his cousin, Isabel, Wells began to supplement his teaching salary with short stories and freelance articles, then books, including (1897) , and Wells created a mild scandal when he divorced his cousin to marry one of his best students, Amy Catherine Robbins. Although his second marriage was lasting and produced two sons, Wells was an unabashed advocate of free (as opposed to "indiscriminate") love. He continued to openly have extra-marital liaisons, most famously with , and a ten-year relationship with the author , who had one of his two out-of-wedlock children. A one-time member of the Fabian Society, Wells sought active change. His 100 books included many novels, as well as nonfiction, such as A Modern Utopia (1905) , The Outline of History (1920) , A Short History of the World (1922) , The Shape of Things to Come (1933) , and The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1932) . One of his booklets was Crux Ansata, An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church. Although Wells toyed briefly with the idea of a "divine will" in his book, God the Invisible King (1917) , it was a temporary aberration. Wells used his international fame to promote his favorite causes, including the prevention of war, and was received by government officials around the world. He is best-remembered as an early writer of science fiction and futurism. He was also an outspoken socialist. Wells and are each sometimes referred to as "The Fathers of Science Fiction". D. 1946. More:
