Wells' evolutionary views seem to have a relevance today, and if that is the case then it is well that the books about him should be as clear, as well-argued and as comprehensive as this excellant example by Simon James.
Professor Simon J. James is Professor of Victorian Literature at Durham University. He is the author of Unsettled Accounts: Money and Narrative Form in the Novels of George Gissing and of work on Charles Dickens, H. G. Wells, and Edwardian fiction. He has edited four Wells novels for Penguin Classics, and is the current editor of The Wellsian, the scholarly journal of the H. G. Wells Society.