H. G. Wells

Hawley Griffin is a character created by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, and appearing in volumes one and two of their comic, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. He is based on Griffin, the eponymous man of H. G. Wells' novel The Invisible Man. In the book, Wells only gave the character a last... name; Moore gave him the forename of Hawley as a reference to the murderer Hawley Crippen. The Invisible Man ends with Griffin being surrounded and beaten to death by a mob after going insane and attempting to start an "epoch of the Invisible Man" with himself as ruler of the world. In the plot line of the League, Griffin escaped the mob, who actually killed an innocent albino whom Griffin had made invisible as means of a decoy. He then escaped to a girls' school run by Miss Rosa Coote, having his way with the students and resulting in a number of "immaculate conceptions". In issue 2 of the first volume, after acquiring Dr. Jekyll, Campion Bond dispatched Mina Murray, Allan Quatermain, and Captain Nemo. The three stay the night, and Miss Murray captures him while he rapes Pollyanna.
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George Herbert is a fictional character appearing in The Asylum's low budget films H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds and War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave. He is the main protagonist, loosely based on the unnamed English narrator of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds, to which the films are... adaptations. His name is a clear reference to H. G. Wells. The films are "mockbusters" of the Dreamworks film based on the same novel. George Herbert is an astronomer who witnesses the two Martian invasions which drive the plot. He is portrayed by American actor C. Thomas Howell. George Herbert's only known relative of his past is his younger brother, Matt . Since he was a child, he had a great passion for astronomy, and went on to become an astronomer. He met his wife-to-be Felicity at a Star Trek convention, and proposed to her on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. In present day, they have an eight year old son called Alex . On the anniversary of his wedding, George chooses to stay at home to investigate a meteor spotted by his son, while Alex and Felicity go to Washington and await his arrival.
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Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , A Journey to the Center of the Earth , and Around the World in Eighty Days . Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before air... travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is the second most translated author in the world . Some of his books have also been made into live-action and animated films and television shows. Verne is often referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction", a title sometimes shared with Hugo Gernsback and H. G. Wells. Jules Verne was born in Nantes, in France, to Pierre Verne, an attorney, and his wife, Sophie Allote de la Fuÿe. Jules spent his early years at home with his parents in the bustling harbor city of Nantes. The family spent summers in a country house just outside the city, in Brains on the banks of the Loire River. Here Jules and his brother Paul would often rent a boat for one franc a day.
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Mary Shelley was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus . She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her... father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary Godwin's mother died when she was eleven days old; afterwards, she and her older half-sister, Fanny Imlay, were raised by her father. When Mary was four, Godwin married his neighbour, Mary Jane Clairmont. Godwin provided his daughter with a rich, if informal, education, encouraging her to adhere to his liberal political theories. In 1814, Mary Godwin began a romantic relationship with one of her father’s political followers, the married Percy Bysshe Shelley. Together with Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont, they left for France and travelled through Europe; upon their return to England, Mary was pregnant with Percy's child.
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer , and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , the latter often called "the Great American Novel." Twain grew up in Hannibal,... Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He apprenticed with a printer. He also worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. After toiling as a printer in various cities, he became a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River, before heading west to join Orion. He was a failure at gold mining, so he next turned to journalism. While a reporter, he wrote a humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", which became very popular and brought nationwide attention. His travelogues were also well-received. Twain had found his calling. He achieved great success as a writer and public speaker. His wit and satire earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.
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Plato was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the... foundations of Western philosophy and science. In the words of A. N. Whitehead: The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. I do not mean the systematic scheme of thought which scholars have doubtfully extracted from his writings. I allude to the wealth of general ideas scattered through them. Plato's sophistication as a writer is evident in his Socratic dialogues; thirty-six dialogues and thirteen letters have been ascribed to him. Plato's writings have been published in several fashions; this has led to several conventions regarding the naming and referencing of Plato's texts. Plato's dialogues have been used to teach a range of subjects, including philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric, and mathematics.
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