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Happy Birthday, H.G. Wells!

  • Sep. 21st, 2015 at 7:29 AM
SF/Planets and interplanetary travel
eldritchhobbit
Happy birthday to H.G. Wells (21 September, 1866 – 13 August, 1946)!

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“Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)
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wellinghall
Sep. 21st, 2015 06:54 pm (UTC)
It seems a little odd that this Victorian author was alive - and, indeed, writing - well into my parents' lifetimes.
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eldritchhobbit
Sep. 25th, 2015 02:49 pm (UTC)
It is hard to imagine, isn't it? He lived through - and significantly influenced - some very dramatic changes in the world.
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