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Mr. H. G. Wells

Novelist and futurist, whose utopian ideas are critiqued as narrow.

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Also known as Mr. Wells

First appearance: i introduction in defence of everything else

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With Narrator (rivalry): H. G. Wells is a prominent futurist and progressive whose utopian ideas the narrator systematically…

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See Mr. H. G. Wells in i introduction in defence of everything else

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See Mr. H. G. Wells in i introduction in defence of everything else