Wellsian
- noun
- /ˈwɛlziən/
- Literature
Examples
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Our reach, at least, is Wellsian.
Academic text (1996) -
Sf sides with futures run not by Wellsian savant technocrats but by the masses, innovating from below and running their own lives, thank you very much.
Fiction book (1999) -
Shanks' post-apocalyptic novel, a pessimistic satire on Wellsian techno-utopian novels, was first published in 1920.
Blog text (27) -
At the end of the 1979 Disney film The Black Hole, which has a place on many people's ten-worst-movies list (including mine), an H. G. Wellsian spaceship loses control of its engines and plunges into a black hole.
Academic text (2002) -
As a dedicated Wellsian, she often cites his stories to inspire her own writing.
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He considers himself a Wellsian due to his admiration for the themes in H.G. Wells's novels.
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Many modern science fiction authors identify as Wellsian, drawing heavily from the imaginative worlds created by H.G. Wells.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Wellsian = Wells (transparent) = Wells + ian
The noun is formed by the same productive '-ian' derivation from the proper name 'Wells' to denote a person associated with or a follower of Wells.
Etymology
Wellsian is formed from the name Wells plus the ending -ian, which marks a 'follower' or someone 'in the style of'. So a Wellsian is a person who follows, admires, or copies the ideas and style of H. G. Wells.