"Up to 1914 Wells was in the main a true prophet ... [but] Wells is too sane to understand the modern world. The succession of lower-middle-class novels which are his greatest achievement stopped short at the other war and never really began again, and since 1920 he has squandered his talents in slaying paper dragons."[0]

[0] George Orwell: https://orwell.ru/library/reviews/wells/english/e_whws