Alice was SO two weeks ago, but...

I don't know how many of you know this already (I sure didn't,) but the new Alice movie actually takes place 10 years after her original adventures in Wonderland. Here's what wiki has to say about the movie if you wanna spoil it for yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_%282010_film%29

Also, here's a trailer full of suspense for you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjMkNrX60mA

(Sort of has that Narnia feel to it, doesn't it?)

Science’s Influence on H.G. Wells

“Queen Victoria was like a great paper-weight that for half a century sat upon men’s minds, and when she was removed their ideas began to blow about all over the place haphazardly” – H.G. Wells

H.G. Well’s was the first professional writer with a formal scientific education concerned with the role of science in society. Well’s stories have symbolic power. His stories had images, theories and facts that usually never had any systematic relation with each other. The Time Machine is often referred to as his “peculiar treasure.” His stories which are rich in symbolism also posses a dreamlike structure; therefore, he presents an idea of dual personality.
In his works, three important aspects influenced the way he perceived the world. The first was his brooding sense of collapse. The second was his childhood religion. He viewed mans place in nature as precarious. The third was Huxley’s evolutionary theory and Kelvin’s law of entropy.

While married to his second wife, Jane, Wells traveled to America. The pessimistic view of the nineteenth century had lead to different mood in America. Therefore, in Well’s perspective the future was uncertain, but full of opportunities.

One of Well’s pieces, The War of the Worlds, became so popular that it was broadcasted on the radio. Despite the fact that Well’s work was fiction, many listeners had fearful reactions. The religious thought the world was coming to an end, the Jewish thought the Nazis had attacked, families frantically contacted each other in order to face doomsday together. After hearing the listener’s reactions, Wells was furious with the capacity of his work to terrify people.

In 1942, Well’s published his last comprehensive statement of his collective ideas titled The Outlook of Homo Sapiens. It is a combination between his previous works The Fate of Homo Sapiens and The New World Order. This combination work proved that World War II had not changed his diagnosis of the world situation.

Before his death, he read an article in a journal that he had written 50 years before and claimed that he had no desire to change a word of it. On August 13th 1946, he went to take his usual nap and past away in his sleep. His confidence with his work right before his death proves him to be one of the greatest prophets of our time.

Early Life of H.G. Wells

Born Herbert George Wells in Sept 21, 1866, in Kent, located in Southeast England.

The third and youngest son to a family n the lowest rank of middle class; father was a shopkeeper and cricketer, mother was a former lady's maid for a wealthy family and an evangelical Anglican.

Called “Bertie” as a child.

When he was five, he went to a “dame school,” where a woman taught classes in her home. Three years later, after breaking his leg and while on bedrest, he discovered his love for reading.

A few years later, his father also broke his leg, which left him unable to make an income from cricketing. Young Wells, 13 at the time, had to go to work to help support his family.

He wrote and illustrated children's novel before he turned 14, called “The Desert Daisy.” It was published posthumously in 1957. At this time, the only copy available is located in the British Library.

Also when he was 14, he briefly apprenticed with a pharmacist, who recognized his academic potential. His mother, convinced that being a draper was a step up in the world for her son, insisted that he become a draper's apprentice.

He was miserable as a draper's apprentice, and he later termed this period as the worst years of his life.

At this point he rejected religion because he associated it with his mother's values. Two years later, in 1883, he walked 17 miles to beg his mother to let him attend Midhurst Grammar School. She let him.

At Midhurst studied under T.H. Huxley, one of Darwin's biggest supporters. Wells only spoke once to Huxley, and later said, "I believed that he was the greatest man I was ever likely to meet, and I believe that all the more firmly today."

In 1887 he failed his final exam in geology and lost his scholarship to Midhurst, then fell into poverty. He briefly held a teaching at a private school in North Wales, but quit by November. His health deteriorated, and he was wrongly diagnosed with tuberculosis. He coughed up blood for the next 12 years.

When he was 21, he wrote the earliest version of The Time Machine, titled "The Chronic Argonauts."

For the next three years he worked menial jobs, and spent his free time preparing for a degree in Science from the University of London. When he was 24 he earned a bachelors in science, with honors in zoology.

After earning his degree, he got a job as a undergraduate teacher. Now that he had sufficient income, he could support a wife. He married his cousin Isabel in 1891 on Halloween.