I had no idea I was so talented.

I am: H.G. Wells The first major literary talent to make himself at home in the science fiction field, greatly expanding its popularity.

Which science fiction writer are you?

More on Wells.  Did you know he wrote a history of the world?  (To which Chesterton’s Everlasting Man is a response?) And that he inspired the theory of the nuclear chain reaction?  Too bad he was so foolishly opimistic about that "world-state" thing. 

Punny quote:  As he devoted his final decades toward causes which were largely rejected by contemporaries, this caused his literary reputation to decline. One critic complained: "He sold his birthright for a pot of message."

Here’s his description of a game he designed.