The Resume

(September 21, 1866-August 13, 1946)
H.G. stands for Herbert George
Wrote 'The Time Machine,' 'The Food of Gods,' 'Island of Dr. Moreau,' 'Village of the Giants,' 'First Men in the Moon,' 'The Invisible Man' and 'War of the Worlds'
Member of the Fabian Society (British socialist group of thinkers)

Why he might be annoying:

He and Jules Verne publicly battled.
He claimed 'Verne couldn't write himself out of a paper sack' and Verne called his ideas 'scientifically implausible.'
He was a vegetarian.
He married his cousin, Isabel (1881), but left her to marry one of his students, Amy Catherine (1895).
He had many wives and mistresses, including Rebecca West, who was 26 years younger than him and bore him a son out of wedlock.
His story 'War of the Worlds' created a national panic when Orson Welles and the Mercury Players performed it on American radio (Halloween, 1939).

Why he might not be annoying:

He was left handed.
He was an anti-Marxist socialist.
He was a pacifist, but joined into the war effort.
He despised and spoke out against Hitler and nazis.
His books were burned in Germany.
He was a pacifist and his 'War that Will End all Wars' epitaph was used to describe World War I.
He believed in free love well before the hippies.
He was a strong support of women's rights.
He became interested in literature when he was non-mobile with a broken leg as a child, and read everything he could.
An international group called 'The H. G. Wells' Society' formed in the 1960s (and are still going strong).
He said Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe' (1920).

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• 25 Most Adapted Authors in Film (Ranked: 22)
• 25 Most Downloaded eBooks on Project Gutenberg (Ranked: 20)
• BBC Big Read: The UK's Top 200 Novels [2003] (Ranked: 194)
• Celebrities on the Cover of Sgt. Pepper
• Cracked.com's 5 Great Men Who Built Their Careers on Plagiarism (Ranked: 1)
• Daily Beast's 11 Greatest Literary Feuds [2010] (Ranked: 10)
• David Lean Films
• Eminent Victorians
• Eugenics Supporters
• Google Modified Its Logo For My Birthday (Google Doodles)
• Historians
• I am Known by My Initials
• I am Left Handed - Male [Q-Z]
• I Did Not Graduate High School [T-Z]
• I Died in 1946 (Ranked: 80)
• I Earned a High School Equivalency Diploma
• I Got a Pet Cat or Twenty
• I Got in Trouble for Plagiarism
• I Have Diabetes
• I Have Tuberculosis
• I Turned Down a Knighthood
• I Was Buried at Sea
• I was Cremated at Colder Green [London, England]
• I Write Sci-Fi
• Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century [1999] (Ranked: 56)
• Oops, I Married My Relative
• Philosophers: 19th Century [1800-1900]
• Profiles 1751-2000 (Ranked: 1866)
• Publisher Weekly's Best-Selling Novel of the Year (Ranked: 1917)
• Satirized on Futurama
• Satirized on Rocky and Bullwinkle
• Steven Spielberg Films

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 6 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 16 Votes: 6.25% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 16 Votes: 43.75% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 35 Votes: 5.71% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 27 Votes: 48.15% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 67 Votes: 56.72% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 12 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 791 Votes: 52.34% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 19 Votes: 47.37% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 18 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 14 Votes: 21.43% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 52 Votes: 48.08% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 35 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 57 Votes: 40.35% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 112 Votes: 48.21% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 219 Votes: 41.10% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 333 Votes: 42.64% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 489 Votes: 41.51% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 1101 Votes: 42.23% Annoying
In 2002, Out of 2045 Votes: 40.34% Annoying
In 2001, Out of 4510 Votes: 38.03% Annoying