H.G. Waggs – H.G. Wells
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Your wizard meets up with the famed inventor in Kensignton Park. He helps you on these quests “War of the Weird”, “The Crime Machine”, and “The Invincible Man”.
Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography and autobiography. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and has been called the “father of science fiction.”
Wells rendered his works convincing by instilling commonplace detail alongside a single extraordinary assumption per work – dubbed “Wells’s law” – leading Joseph Conrad to hail him in 1898 as “O Realist of the Fantastic!”. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), which was his first novel, The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)(See Wizard City entry on Doctor Purreau), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898)
This is the sixty-fifth article chronicling the #W101PopCulture references starting in Wizard City and the twenty-second Marleybone article. The current list of all the (known) Marleybone references are located here.
Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
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