"Wells has received insufficient credit as a writer of rhythmic, incantatory prose, long-breath paragraphs to cut against his tight journalistic reportage. The War of the Worlds makes the journey from sensationalist incident to moral parable. Wells predicts an era when fiction and documentary will be inseparable." Fantastic writing from Iain Sinclair on HG Wells.

Yes, basically. A nice, tight, essay, about what happened to the promise of 60s/70s sci-fi (part of the answer: Star Wars, that's what)