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I am:The first major literary talent to make himself at home in the science fiction field, greatly expanding its popularity. |
More on Wells. Did you know he wrote a history of the world? (To which Chesterton's Everlasting Man is a response?) And that he inspired the theory of the nuclear chain reaction? Too bad he was so foolishly opimistic about that "world-state" thing.
Punny quote: As he devoted his final decades toward causes which were largely rejected by contemporaries, this caused his literary reputation to decline. One critic complained: "He sold his birthright for a pot of message."
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