Dissatisfied with the world around him, H G Wells seeks to attain a system of living and state of affairs rather more desirable - in short the ideal. But as he argues for sociological reform and an advance of the philosophical model, he finds that he has left the realms of the possible and entered the world of his imagination. For H G Wells, creator of time travel and a host of new and exotic societies, his ideal is a fusion of the philosophical and the imaginative.