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Herbert George Wells was an English novelist, teacher, historian, and journalist active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was a prolific writer in various genres and considered to be one of the main pioneers of the science fiction genre alongside Jules Verne, writing more than 100 books during his six decade career. Additionally, Wells wrote short stories and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography, and autobiography, as well as two books on recreational war games. Throughout his life, Wells was considered a prominent forward-thinking, and in moments prophetic, social critic, and he devoted much of his literary talent to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. Wells was a futurist and an outspoken socialist who empathized with pacifism, and he foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television, and quite possibly even the internet. Throughout his career, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times, a man Winston Churchill considered a close friend, and one of the most highly respected minds of his era. But just who was HG Wells when he wasn’t writing bestsellers? Well, he was a man who founded the Diabetic Association in the UK after suffering from diabetes himself; he is on the cover of SGT Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and he enjoyed his freedoms of all sorts, particularly when it came to his love life. Are you ready to learn all about the incredible life of HG Wells? Let’s get season 3, episode 1 of Legacy: the artists behind the legends, off and rolling!