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The Flowering of the Strange Orchid

Author
H. G. Wells
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
16 pages
ISBN
9781787242005
Published
1 March 2017
Imprint
Fantastica
  • Science fiction
  • sci fi
  • h.g. wells
  • philosophy
  • adventure
  • action
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • time travel
  • future

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Description

Winter-Wedderburn, a mild orchid collector, buys a strange Andaman specimen that thrives too well in his greenhouse. The flowering plant drinks more than water, fastening on him as prey, and only his housekeeper's courage stops the orchid from finishing what it began. Wells's short horror of hobby, appetite, and a bloom that hunts the man who cherished it.

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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