H. G. Wells

The novelist and social commentator Herbert George Wells is known, along with Mary Shelley and Jules Verne, as one of the originators of science fiction. He was born in Kent on September 21, 1866 to Joe

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by H. G. Wells (1866–1946)

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Mr. Wells, of the big cerebellum,

Uses mountains of paper (or vellum);

When his temper gets bad

And we ask, "Why so mad?"

He replies, " They won't do as I tell em!

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