(CNN) — A new British coin commemorating the pioneering science fiction author HG Wells has been criticized for featuring multiple errors — including the decision to give his famous “tripod ...

A new British coin commemorating the pioneering science fiction author HG Wells has been criticized for featuring multiple errors — including the decision to give his famous “tripod” machine ...

H.G. Wells Society Vice President Adam Roberts, ... Several people have tweeted this into my timeline, so I might add: not only did Wells' Tripods have *three* legs, Griffin, ...

This week, the UK’s Royal Mint announced five new commemorative coins honoring figures like the Queen(!) and Sir Walter Scott. It would’ve been a standard ...

So it’s only right that the UK’s Royal Mint would someday issue a commemorative coin in honor of H.G. Wells. And that time has come. To mark the 75th anniversary of the author’s passing ...

The tripods are still coming. They're just not from Mars anymore. ... The history of H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds” Originally published June 26, 2005 at 12:00 am.

The two-pound coin from the Royal Mint features imagery from Wells’s books. But fans noted that the writer’s Martian tripods have three legs, not four.

As Nazi Germany grew ever more dangerous in the 1930s and the Japanese threatened China, science fiction author H.G. Wells wrote up some thoughts about real-life horrors and in 1937 submitted them ...

A new British coin commemorating the pioneering science fiction author HG Wells has been criticized for featuring multiple errors — including the decision to give his famous “tripod” machine ...

A new British coin commemorating the pioneering science fiction author HG Wells has been criticized for featuring multiple errors — including the decision to give his famous “tripod” machine ...