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The New Accelerator

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
Raphael Croft
Language
English
Length
28 minutes
ISBN
9781802566239
Published
17 May 2025
Imprint
Fantastica
  • Science fiction
  • sci fi
  • h.g. wells
  • philosophy
  • adventure
  • action
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • time travel
  • future

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Description

Professor Gibberne’s drug makes the world crawl. Wells’s New Accelerator is a walk through frozen streets, a scientific joke with bruised shins. Speed as a toy, then as a danger. The future in a bottle, one afternoon long. Hats, traffic, a world stuck like amber. The drug wears off; the joke remains: what if speed were a private luxury? Wells in a light suit, already thinking like a century later. Gibberne’s bottle, a street stuck like amber, speed as a private luxury with bruised shins. Read in English, unabridged.

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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