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Charles Darwin's revolutionary 1859 study on human origins, On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection, significantly influenced Wells's intellectual growth.
William Gibson, like Wells, is a science fiction author. However, Gibson focuses on the interaction between humans and machines, rather than humans and animals. His best-selling novel, Neuromancer (1984), played a crucial role in establishing the Cyberpunk genre.
T. H. Huxley was arguably the most significant influence on Wells's career as both a writer and a thinker. Adrian Desmond's biography, Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest (1997), explores Huxley's efforts in popularizing Darwin's theory of evolution and legitimizing science in 19th-century Britain.
Mark Twain's novel, A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court (1889), is the first novel to explicitly incorporate time travel into its storyline.
Wells's novel, The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Possibility (1896), which centers on an island filled with human-animal hybrids from failed scientific experiments, remains one of his most popular works and is particularly relevant today.
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