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Subject: H. G. Wells
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Date: Sat, 18-May-85 07:45:48 EDT
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From: Bruce (:-) <Leban%hplabs.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa>

> > ... the film ["The Man Who Could Work Miracles"] is based on the short
> > story of the same name by a relatively unknown author named H. G. Wells.
> 
> H. G. Wells unknown??? When and where were you born??? ... To speak
> of one of the founders of modern SF like this is ridiculous.

                             H. G. WELLS
                     A biography by Bruce Leban

H. G. (HuGo) Wells was born in 1946 at the age of 80 in Bromley, Kent,
England.  In 1888, he graduated from London University with honors as a
Bachelor of Science.  He taught science for several years after that, but his
first true claim to fame came when he invented an invisibility drug in 1897.
This, unfortunately, led to his death at the hands of a mob.  If it had not
been for his subsequent invention of the world's first working time machine
in 1895, he would never have lived to write his greatest works.

Wells anticipated many modern scientific accomplishments including the tank
(in /The Land Ironclads/), the submarine (in /Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
the Sea/, written under his Jules Verne pseudonym) and the rocket.  The HuGo
award is named after him to honor this genius.

He appeared in a number of motion pictures including the radio version of
"The War of the Worlds" (under the pseudonym Orson Well(e)s) and a cameo in
the title song of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (as Claude Rains).

--- beepy-el (Bruce Leban, Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, CA)

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