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And now here is the host of the Dead Authors Podcast, Mr. H.G. Wells. Welles.

Hello once again all of you literate and literary thrill seekers. I remain H.G. Wells, legendary author and time traveler, presenting once again a glimpse into the creative

process of a giant of literature.

And that's right.

I said I was a time traveler.

I have a time machine.

It wasn't just a brilliant idea for a novel. It's also a brilliant idea for a machine.

That travels through time. Since acquiring this fantastic device, I've learned a great many things but mostly what I find

myself continuing to learn a game and a game is what everyone else would do if they

had a time machine the minute they find out you've got one, believe me, people begin

to yammer on and on about assassinating this dictator or seeing that concert. You'd be

surprised how few of them would use it to cart famous authors hither and yon for the educational betterment of future generations.

Time travel's not all transporting Hitler to Shay Stadium to bludgeon him with Paul McCartney's Hoffner violin base.

You can't have your pudding if you don't eat your meat.

And the cinemas made it worse.

One popular film purports that time travel is little more than endless opportunities

to almost commit incest with your own mother. Sorry to inform the filmmakers that the story of

Eedipus got there first without the weird paradox of Marvin Berry.

Some of these movies are dreadful enough to make one think they'd been penned by Jules

Vern and yet of course they weren, as they are still too imaginative.

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