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Audiobook · Fantastica

Filmer

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
Raphael Croft
Language
English
Length
35 minutes
ISBN
9781802564983
Published
8 April 2025
Imprint
Fantastica
  • Science fiction
  • sci fi
  • h.g. wells
  • philosophy
  • adventure
  • action
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • time travel
  • future

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Filmer is the timid brain who finally solves practical flight, then finds fame and a ruthless newspaper man pushing him toward a public first ascent he never meant to take himself. Wells turns invention into psychological drama: isolation, hubris, and the gap between solving a problem and living with its demand. On the great day the inventor who changed the air must face the machine, or escape it. Spoken as sharp tragedy with a human shrug of irony.

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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