"Brave New World" was Aldous Huxley's pessimistic answer to the scientific optimism H. G. Wells expressed in his books.
Borges was an admirer of Wells and his work.
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Novelist Anthony West was the son of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West.
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Born in Kent, England to poor parents, H. G. Wells was apprenticed to a draper at age 14. Fired, he bounced from job to job, and at age 18 he went to college and became a pupil of scientist Thomas Henry Huxley, the greatest influence on his life. After two troubled marriages, Wells began publishing his novels and grew very wealthy; his first novel, THE TIME MACHINE, was followed by approximately a book a year. He was described by his paramour Rebecca West as "practically off his head, enormously more...
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09/21/1866 Kent, Southern England, England, Great Britain, United Kingdom, British Isles, Western Europe,
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oh my gosh! I love this book! the future and the past are so present and so strong