I knew the Fabians (most famous member being George Bernard Shaw) were a sort of British proto-fascist group. There was a lot of such eugenic nonsense going 'round socialist circles in those days. For example; the author of "Might is Right" -written by either Jack London (a socialist) or australian socialist Arthur Desmond depending who you believe. Or, the american Eugenic movement, upon which Hitler based his race laws. But I had no idea what a barking looney H.G. Wells was about all this stuff.

Wells' books "Anticipations" and "A Modern Utopia" are apparently so brutal and monsterish that they inspired Huxley to write "Brave New World" lampooning it.

In other ways Wells was rather cut of the same mold as the rest of them; he was a womanizer, despite being a sort of a lumpy shabby fat bastard (he did have some bizarro eyes), he was an anti-christian at a time when it took both intellectual and physical balls to be so, and his choleric vein makes me look like a cheery bastard.

The bio I got all this from was "The Invisible Man" by Michael Coren.

I'm going to have to order those "utopian" stories of his. I got a hint of his ideas some time back, and promptly forgot about them by reading Wells' "Outline of History" -the full enchelada ought to be a real hoot.

FWIIW, his outline of history was also a sort of "non aligned movement" as it was quite non-eurocentric. Really, it contains most of what I know about the history of India and Akosa the Great. It's sinology left a lot to be desired, and of course its science was preposterous. Anyway, some interesting pointers.

-Lupo