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...on Mars! H.G. Wells got a good story out of the idea, and while the Martian life of Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs and (more recently) Robert A. Heinlein and S.M. Stirling is exciting, it is also fictional. Still, many people hope that we’ll find some sort...
...as economic powers, and the eventual exhaustion of natural resources. A few very famous authors -- Edgar Rice Burroughs, H.G. Wells, Jack London and Arthur Conan Doyle -- make the list for their less-famous works. In Jack London's case, it's for "The...
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...World War I, H.G. Wells wrote that a race was on between morality and destruction. Humanity had to abandon its warlike ways, Wells said, or technology would decimate it. Economic writing, however, conveyed a completely different world. Here technology...
...travel has fascinated and tantalised many, even linking such unlikely artistic bedfellows as H.G. Wells and Cher. Wells wrote The Time Machine in 1895; nearly 100 years later Cher wailed: “If I could turn back time ...” In 2003, Audrey Niffenegger's...
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...What's the problem with that? Wells already had a wife, and several children. When West became pregnant out of wedlock with Wells' baby (a big deal when it happened in 1913), she decided to keep the child. According to the book, after she told Wells she...
...who think they are invisible. Looking around, one may not see them in their evil ways, but just like the invisible man of Wells' creation, one can follow them with the plunder they carry or the damage they inflict. The illusion that no one will detect...
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