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The Lord of the Dynamos

Author
H. G. Wells
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
18 pages
ISBN
9781787241954
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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Azuma-zi, a South Sea stoker in a Camberwell dynamo-shed, takes the great machine for a god under the heat and hum of Holroyd’s brutal rule. Worship turns to killing in the shed, then to the worshipper’s own death in the current that he served. A short, sharp horror of technology as idol: the shed becomes temple and trap in the same roar.

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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