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         W. 
          Warren Wagar, H.G. Wells: Traversing Time. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan 
          Univ. Press, 2004. 
          6 
          x 9 ", 352 pp. 
          $34.95 cloth ISBN 0-8195-6725-6 
           
          
        Comprehensive 
          and compelling, assertive and argumentative, it's a lot like Wells himself, 
          and that quality of subversive, angry brilliance lights the book from 
          within. Wagar's examination is brisk, personal, original. In a word, 
          wonderful. ---Greg Bear, author of Darwin's Children 
        Wagar 
          locates Wells with acumen in the history of ideas, and underlines his 
          persisting and provocative relevance. Traversing Time is an important 
          book, written from the heart as well as from the head.---Ian 
          Watson, author of The Embedding 
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          an excellent example of intellectual history... ---Neil Barron, 
          SFRA Review  
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