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Podcast: Re-Creative: A podcast about inspiration and creativity
Episode: Robert Charles Wilson on H.G. Wells The Time Machine
Description: Mark and Joe jump around in time with Nebula and Hugo-Award winning author Robert Charles Wilson.Written in the late 1800s, The Time Machine is one of the first books of science fiction that Robert Charles Wilson discovered. "It was obviously the work of someone who was intellectually engaged with the big discoveries of the late 19th century," says Robert. Particularly what science was learning about geology and, of course, evolution.The Time Machine looked directly and bluntly at those ideas, says Robert. He was struck by the ending of the book, which moves far...