Christmas The World Set Free - Christmas The World Set Free is s story about a fictional atomic bomb. Written well before the atom was split and before an idea for an atomic chain reaction had been conceived. Christmas The World Set Free - H.G.(Herbert George) Wells (1866-1946), born of lower middle class parents, was largely self-educated. A government scholarship allowed him to attended the Royal College of Science where he studied with Thomas Henry Huxley. Christmas The World Set Free- Although he wrote a number of different types of fiction as well as non-fiction, he is best remembered for his science fiction. His firm grounding in science shows forth in this genre. Christmas The World Set Free - In 1938, Orson Welles, broadcast a dramatization on radio of H. G. Wells' novel "The War of the Worlds", which was so believable that people fled their homes to avoid the Martian invasion.
