#155 - The Futuristic Predictions of H. G. Wells
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English - March 29, 2023 18:59 - 51 minutes - 32.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsEducation History education facts humour film fun generalknowledge history mythology science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
English writer H. G. Wells was prolific in many genres, writing more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories, and has been called the ‘father of modern science fiction’. He was also considered to be a futurist, with his works imagining time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering before these subjects were common in the genre. So Ellie wanted to find out... how many of H. G. Wells' creations actually came true?
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