![]() ![]() Wells when I decided to write this book I had never studied him as a student, and the only book of his I had taught was The Time Machine, which I loved and sometimes placed as the first text in my modernism survey courses. So Cole set out to change that with her new book. ![]() As Cole explains, Wells is barely recognized or taught in the academy, the works of his that are appreciated today all stem from the first 10 years of his 50-year writing career, and all of them are science fiction, which is a marginalized genre among literary scholars. Wells and the Twentieth Century, as well as her favorite books, which women writers she would host for dinner and how to write a book while juggling other work and parenting. ![]() In a wide-ranging discussion with Columbia News, Humanities Dean and Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature Sarah Cole touches on her new book, Inventing Tomorrow: H.G. ![]()
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