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"Very well," said the Voice, in a tone of relief. "Then I'm going to throw flints at you till you think differently."
Herbert George Wells (September 21 1866 – August 13 1946) was a British writer most famous for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man and The Time Machine; also for Kipps, The History of Mr. Polly and other social satires.
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