Which fact about an author best illustrates the meaning of prescient?
A. Jane Austen's 1817 novel Persuasion is partly set in Bath, England.
B. In The Sleeper Awakes, written in 1899, H. G. Wells describes aerial warfare before it was invented.
C. George Eliot wrote Romola in 1862–1863 and set it in fifteenth-century Florence.
D. David Copperfield, published in 1850, is the most autobiographical of Charles Dickens's books.