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

Hello and welcome to another chapter of the Dead Authors Podcast.

I am your host, H.G. Wells, the author of and haver of the time machine.

Now, as you can imagine, I get an awful lot of questions about my fabulous device.

Perhaps the most common question I get is, may I ask you a question, to which my answer is usually yes or if I'm feeling cheeky you just did would you like to ask another oh well that tickles me

Anyway quite often the follow-up question is, with all the swanning about you do in the time stream,

do you ever worry that you'll encounter other versions of yourself, thereby causing a paradox that would result in multiple H.G. Wellsies existing in the same place

and time. To which my answer is, usually, may I change my answer to your first question

about asking the question.

I know it's a bit rude of me, but I'm sorry. I find that query insulting.

Of course I've considered the possibility that my temporal gallavanting could result in the creation of an

H.G. Wells double ganger or doubles ganger.

Yes, I've considered it.

And then I capitalized upon it.

You'd be surprised to just how handy it can be,

having a few extra versions of oneself at one's back

and one's call, household chores, heavy lifting, unpleasant professional and social obligations they can all be done away with.

I've even found the doubles helpful when it comes to diffusing familial strife.

Matter of fact, in the mid-1990s, Hollywood made a delightful feature film of my story

starring the clownish Michael Keaton and the effervescent Miss Andy McDowell. Of course in the film,

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