Stories* for Morlocks, not literature for Eloi... (I had thought Wells' relationship between Morlocks and Eloi might've been a reply to Kipling's Sons of Marth

Stories* for Morlocks, not literature for Eloi... (I had thought Wells' relationship between Morlocks and Eloi might've been a reply to Kipling's Sons of Martha https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_martha.htm https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_martha.htm , but the former is from 1895 and the latter was not until 1907) * although hard sci-fi has its own interwoven network of influences and references, so like capital-L literature and hip-hop, it really does count as a literature.