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The New Accelerator

Author
H. G. Wells
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
24 pages
ISBN
9781787242197
Published
4 April 2017
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.

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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