John Steinbeck in 1939 Born

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  The superhuman protagonist of J. D. Beresford's 1911 novel, The Hampdenshire Wonder, Victor Stott, was based on Wells.^[128]
  
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  In M. P. Shiel's short story "The Primate of the Rose" (1928), there is an unpleasant womaniser named E. P. Crooks, who was written as a parody of Wells.^[144] Wells had attacked Shiel's Prince Zaleski when it was published in 1895, and this was Shiel's response.^[144] Wells praised Shiel's The Purple Cloud (1901); in turn Shiel expressed admiration for Wells, referring to him at a speech to the Horsham Rotary Club in 1933 as "my friend Mr. Wells".^[144]
  
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  In C. S. Lewis's novel That Hideous Strength (1945), the character Jules is a caricature of Wells,^[145] and much of Lewis's science fiction was written both under the influence of Wells and as an antithesis to his work (or, as he put it, an "exorcism"^[146] of the influence it had on him).
  
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  In Brian Aldiss's novella The Saliva Tree (1966), Wells has a small off screen guest role.^[147]
  
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  In Saul Bellow's novel Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970), Wells is one of several historical figures the protagonist met when he was a young man.^[148]
  
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  In The Dancers at the End of Time by Michael Moorcock (1976) Wells has an important part.
  
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  In The Map of Time (2008) by Spanish author Félix J. Palma; Wells is one of several historical characters.^[149]
  
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  Wells is one of the two Georges in Paul Levinson's 2013 time-travel novelette, "Ian, George, and George," published in Analog magazine.^[150]