Rise of the Machines: Why We Keep Coming Back to H.G. Wells’ Visions of a Dystopian Future | Wired
Wells composed [War of the Worlds, The Time Machine and Island of Doctor Moreau] as a warning; one that, like an intellectual replicant, now endlessly reproduces itself in new cinematic forms.
When we thrill to the “Rise of the Machine” plots in the Terminator and Aliens series, we are reading H.G. Wells.
