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HG Wells → Katsuhiro Otomo → Kanye West https://t.co/QRoy35fZSv
Akira's director Katsuhiro Otomo's answer to "what book had the greatest impact on you": HG Wells' War Of The Worlds (1887) – which was about a Martian invasion on Victorian England, and often considered to be a commentary on British Imperialism https://t.co/oP9D0PPmOj
(h/t @souvlakis) https://t.co/DRpMCryl0r https://t.co/Zgob2ifMyz
@souvlakis Herbert meanwhile was influenced by Plato, Thomas More, Daniel Defoe https://t.co/bK8Scu96hh
what a sentence 😂 my man bertie read plato's republic, joined a debating society and started thinking about reforming society the late 1800s were a heady and exciting time to be alive before WW1, Spanish Flu, etc. Science & tech advancements just kept happening– electricity... https://t.co/eq9xnzeS96
