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The Diamond Maker

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
15 minutes
ISBN
9781802561821
Published
2 December 2024
Imprint
Fantastica
  • Science fiction
  • sci fi
  • h.g. wells
  • philosophy
  • adventure
  • action
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • time travel
  • future

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Description

On the Thames Embankment a destitute inventor offers stones he swears he made by furnace heat. The process worked, only too late and too grimily to sell; a beggar with diamonds cannot feed himself. The short confession turns rarity into irony: value fails when the seller looks like fraud. River, pocket crystals, and a man who succeeded at making gems and still starves.

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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