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The Future Was His
Inventing Tomorrow: H.G. Wells and the Twentieth Century
by Sarah Cole
July 23, 2020 issue
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Maya Jasanoff is the X.D. and Nancy Yang Professor of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. Her latest book is The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World. (July 2020)
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