In Popular Fiction and Film
In C. S. Lewis's novel That Hideous Strength, the character Jules is a caricature of Wells, and much of Lewis's science fiction was written both under the influence of Wells and as an antithesis to his work (or, as he put it, an "exorcism" of the influence it had on him).
Bert is a portrayal of H. G. Wells in James A. Owen's series, The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica.
Malcolm MacDowell plays H. G. Wells in Time After Time (1979 film).
Wells also features as a character in Félix J. Palma's novels The Map of Time and The Map of the Sky (2012).
Read more about this topic: H. G. Wells
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