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Shaping things to come: seeking to impose their global vision of a tyrannical "utopia," powerful elitists have effectively used science fiction to evangelize for their cause.(Cover Story)
Between 1890 and 1920, Herbert George "H.G." Wells was arguably the most influential popular writer in the English language, producing a series of "modern fairy tales." By penning such works as The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, Food of the Gods, and The Island of Dr. Moreau, Wells essentially created the modern genre known as science fiction -- speculative works anticipating future trends or examining the impact of technology on humanity.
But Wells did more than spin fantastic tales. He was a devoted Marxist and a committed globalist who used his fiction to propagandize on behalf of an ideal world state ruled ...
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