The Flying Man

Name: The Flying Man
Author: H. G. Wells
ISBN: 9781787242418

Author: H. G. Wells
Series: World Classics
Language: English
Length: 16 pages
ISBN: 9781787242418
Published: 19 May 2017
Imprint: Fantastica

flying
invention
science fiction
society
humanity
power
ambition
manipulation
morality
future

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Description

Wells’s Flying Man is a soldier, not a comic-book inventor. In a mountain campaign he takes a primitive flying kit over the enemy and discovers what height does to a man who was built for the ground. Fantastica’s ebook keeps the 1890s scientific romance: apparatus, war, the body in air. Short, sharp, uneasy about power once you can leave the ridge. Not a superhero origin. A Wells tale of flight as a military trick that changes the person who uses 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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