I had been reading, teaching and writing about modernism for 20 years, and the deeper I got into modernism, the more I started bumping into Wells. The Time Machine figures as an interesting in-between work, but Wells in general is not part of academic modernism. 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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