Happy Birthday, H.G. Wells!

[eldritchhobbit]

Happy birthday to H.G. Wells (21 September, 1866 – 13 August, 1946)!



“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)

Comments

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

It seems a little odd that this Victorian author was alive - and, indeed, writing - well into my parents' lifetimes.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

It is hard to imagine, isn't it? He lived through - and significantly influenced - some very dramatic changes in the world.