Guess who I am #16. This time no clues. See how you do. I’d be amazed if you recognize this character from my upcoming book. lifespanbook.com #lifespanbook 
H.G. Wells could do it all. He's famous for his novels, of course, but he also wrote shorter fiction, social critiques, and non-fiction works. (His first book was a biology textbook.)
Trained as a scientist, H.G. Wells is, of course, best known as a futurist. His work predicted genetic engineering, nuclear power and more.
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Where does a mind like that come from? One of the most common stories is that Wells broke his leg as a child and, to pass the time while bedridden, he voraciously consumed books from the library. That might be true, but...
... consider also the world Wells was born into in 1866, just miles away from the epicenter of yet another deadly cholera outbreak in London. "The man who invented tomorrow" came to the world a hellish time and place, one in which the very survival of humanity was at question.
What compels us to dream big dreams? To reconsider the way the world works? To nudge our present, this way or that, setting a course for a different future?
Maybe dreams, like those H.G. Wells offered our world, can be born of something like a broken leg and some books. But maybe it takes that and more: moments in time in which the only choices are, as Wells often observed, "adapt or perish."
I think we are in such a time. The stakes are that high. But we cannot adapt if we do not dream. H.G. Wells knew that, and that's one of the reasons he's a central character in my coming book. lifespanbook.com
Dream big. Our future depends on it.
