HG Wells is to blame for geek culture

All "cool" geek culture (by which I mean the cheesy stuff that fashionably geeky people like) can be traced back to HG Wells: Syfy original programming, Dungeons and Dragons, war games, steampunk, bad sci-fi adventure novels (okay, Jules Verne is probably more to blame for that one), eugenics (as understood by Internet neckbeards) and self-righteous vegetarianism. All the genuinely cool things about him (proto-feminism, Fabian socialism) remain unfashionable. I have therefore concluded that the only way to save humanity from its navel-gazing fantasist inclinations is to travel back in time and assassinate HG Wells. Oh wait, time travel is another genre trope he popularized. God damn it. HG fucking Wells.