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Aepyornis Island

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
25 minutes
ISBN
9781802561906
Published
4 December 2024
Imprint
Fantastica
  • Science fiction
  • sci fi
  • h.g. wells
  • philosophy
  • adventure
  • action
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • time travel
  • future

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Description

After a wreck, castaway Butcher hatches an Aepyornis egg on a lonely island and raises the giant bird that comes of it. Wonder becomes dread as the creature grows past friendship into a fight for survival on bare shore. Wells's short adventure of a man alone with a prehistoric chick: companionship, hunger, and the day the pet turns hunter.

Author

H. G. Wells (1866–1946) was born in Bromley, trained in biology under Huxley, and turned that laboratory habit into fiction. The Time Machine sent a Victorian into deep time; The War of the Worlds brought the sky down on the Home Counties. He wrote as if the future were a social problem with monsters attached. The novels argue while they entertain. A draper's son who made scientific romance a public language.

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