Cover of Jimmy Goggles The God by H. G. Wells Audiobook Jimmy Goggles The God
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Jimmy Goggles The God

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
Raphael Croft
Language
English
Length
25 minutes
ISBN
9781802566208
Published
16 May 2025
Imprint
Fantastica
  • Science fiction
  • sci fi
  • h.g. wells
  • philosophy
  • adventure
  • action
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • time travel
  • future

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Wells’s short satire: three friends salvage a pearl diver’s suit and name it Jimmy Goggles. On a yachting trip Treherne puts it on to explore a wreck and is taken for a god by an island tribe. Revered, he takes riches and obedience — then unintended consequences expose colonial exploitation and blind worship. Imperialism, greed, clash of cultures; identity and power spoken with sharp wit. Adventure and irony on human folly.

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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