Fan Works
- Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space
- TuMok of Mars says his race is peace-loving despite the "slanderous tales of H. G. Wells".
- When Captain Proton encounters Lonzak, he quips: "Are you the Shape of Thugs to Come?"
- Gneelix says he has the heart of a lion and the ferocity of a tiger, but not any other animal parts because Doctor Moreau was arrested before he could do the operation. Earlier Isaac Asimov appeared as The Sayer of the Three Laws.
- In Eternals, Makkari's modern-day attire includes an H.G. Wells shirt.
- Time After Time. Jack the Ripper steals the Time Machine and uses it to travel to the present day while pursued by H.G. Wells, played by Malcolm McDowell. Later remade as a television series.
- In the short film Tomorrow Calling (an adaptation of The Gernsback Continuum by William Gibson), the movie Things to Come is mentioned in regards to the Zee Rust vision of The Future the photographer is meant to capture.
Literature
- Doctor Moreau is a character in The Bloody Red Baron. With virtually unkillable vampire patients as test subjects, his work becomes even more abhorant.
- In the Dr. Watson At War series by Robert Ryan, Winston Churchill sends Major Watson to find out what killed a crew during a Disastrous Demonstration of the first tanks. Because the tank is a Secret Weapon Churchill refuses to tell Watson any details until he gets there, but gives him The Land Ironclads to read as a clue. In a later novel, as most of London's populace are hiding in cellars and tube stations from German bombers and zeppelins, Watson muses that they're turning into Morlocks.
Live Action TV
- Doctor Who. At the end of the episode "Timelash", the character of "Herbert" is revealed as H.G. Wells, though he bares little resemblance to the actual Wells. Various other Shout Outs appear in the episode and are implied to have inspired The Time Machine.
- Person of Interest. Greer refers to the human avatar of Samaritan—an Artificial Intelligence which plans to take over the world—as "the shape of things to come", appropriate given that it's a novel in which a worldwide utopia is imposed by technological force.
- H.G. Wells is Gender Flipped for the SyFy series Warehouse 13, played by Jaime Murray.
- Hark! A Vagrant: Verne and Wells have an argument
, based on Verne's real life annoyance with Wells' not describing how things work in detail in his work, with air balloons. Verne's gets destroyed.Jules Verne: You can't just make things up!H. G. Wells: Why not? Mine works just as well as yours. And blueprints are boring.
Verne: My dirigible!
Wells: Oh no! I'm sorry. It was trying to make social metaphors.
Other
- An article in a British flying magazine about a proposed flying wing airliner was titled The Shape of Wings to Come.
