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[Emily]

 

 

Okay, I'm going to be a massive nerd right now, but it is H.G. Wells' birthday. This strangely excites me.

 

If you don't know much about his work, you may remember that he wrote The War of the Worlds. The War of the Worlds went on to be a famous radio drama, narrated by Orson Welles, in 1938. The reason why it was so famous was because it caused a panic - mainly because it was set up like a news bulletin. There would be orchestral music and then every few minutes, they would cut in with a news bulletin about these strange things happening, and they didn't actually cut in to say the name of the network until about 40 mins in. So, if someone wasn't listening from the very beginning of the program then they would have thought it was real. 

 

But this wasn't all he wrote! Many of the things he wrote were very influential, and he shouldn't be remembered just for writing something that caused a panic later on

 

Some of his other notable works are: The Time Machine, The Shape of Things to Come, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The First Men in the Moon.

 

Here's more about him: http://www.biography.../hg-wells-39224

 

 

I found this on a Tumblr I follow that quotes final sentences from books: 

 

[Irradium]

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Wow, you are a nerd.

 

Although I've never read any of his works, he is, clearly, an extremely good writer. That last sentence about the flowers was beautiful.

 

And he has a gnarly moustache.

Edited by Irradium, 21 September 2014 - 01:23 PM.

[Keil]

• He's really good with thinking of out the box with character dialogues without being cliche or corny.
• The War of the World's transcript is actually really interesting to read.
• Someone recommended me Invisible Man a while back I never got to it. I'll probably pick it up in December.

[Iarn]

I love Sci-Fi, so I appreciate who he is as a writer and a thinker. The world wouldn't be entirely what it is today without him. His mustache, too.