What once was just imagination is now real; what was once the distant future is now around the corner. The science of the future was strangely prophesied by a group of authors, illustrators, filmmakers and scientists whose dreams once may have deemed them renegades and mad scientists. Prophets of Science Fiction is a biographical exploration of eight science fiction visionaries and how their early projections eerily predicted the future.

H.G. Wells' self-penned epitaph underscores a lifetime of grim yet uncanny prophecy. With stories like The Time Machine , The Invisible Man , The World Set Free , and the world famous The War of the Worlds , H.G. Wells established himself as a sci-fi writer of almost clairvoyant talent. But these tales of hi-tech adventure hold an ominous warning - beware the dark side of progress. Our greatest innovations could very well become the tools of our own destruction.