Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was an English author now best known for his science-fiction novels, which include The Time Machine , The First Men in the Moon and The Invisible Man . FELIX BENNETT grew up in Bradford in northern England, and cut short a math and astronomy degree at University College, London, in ... Read moreorder to spend more time as an illustrator. He trained at Bradford, then at the Camberwell School of Art. He now lives and works in London. ERIC BROWN was born in Haworth, Yorkshire, in May 1960, and began writing in 1975. In the 1980s he travelled extensively throughout Greece and Asia (some of his novels are set in India). His first publication was in 1982, when his play for children, Noel's Ark, appeared. His career took off in the late eighties with a succession of short stories in Interzone and other publications. His story The Time-Lapsed Man won the Interzone readers' poll for the most admired story of 1988, and an Eastercon short text award in 1995. He was voted the Best New European SF writer of the Year in the early nineties and has subsequently won the British Science Fiction Award twice (for the short stories Hunting the Slarque in 1999 and Children of Winter in 2001). Show Less