"Wells is the Prospero of all the brave new worlds of the mind, and the Shakespeare of science fiction."
- Brian Aldiss on H.G. Wells
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Herbert George Wells was a prolific writer born in Kent in 1866. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature no fewer than four times. He was passionate about politics as well as literature and his output included several nonfiction pieces to go with his array of short stories and novels.
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