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The Diamond Maker

Author
H. G. Wells
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
18 pages
ISBN
9781787241947
Published
22 February 2017
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 shabby man offers stones he says he made in a furnace. Years of heat bought a process that worked too slowly; the gems look real, yet nobody will buy diamonds from a tramp. Rarity turns out to be a social fact: he holds crystals in his pocket and still starves. One inventor, one confession by the river, and success that looks like fraud.

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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