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The Lord of the Dynamos

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
20 minutes
ISBN
9781802561838
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

In a Camberwell dynamo-shed, South Sea stoker Azuma-zi hears the great machine as a god while engineer Holroyd rules by heat and cruelty. The hum becomes worship, worship becomes a killing, and the current claims the believer who fed it blood. Short-story horror of technology as idol, told as roar, shed, and a trap that looks like a temple.

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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