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phantom power

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6. I once read an account of HG Wells...

Reply to The Northerner (Original post)

Thu Jul 19, 2012, 10:30 AM

Jul 2012

where he submitted a manuscript for a novel about a plutocrat who ends up controlling the world because he purchased all the media. The publishers considered it too far-fetched to publish.

I wish I could find a reference or link to that account.

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