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The Obliterated Man

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
18 minutes
ISBN
9781802562149
Published
28 December 2024
Imprint
Fantastica
  • Science fiction
  • sci fi
  • h.g. wells
  • philosophy
  • adventure
  • action
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • time travel
  • future

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Description

Egbert is shy, slightly stuttering, and engaged to Delia when his editor makes him a drama critic, though he has never seen a play. Night after night the stage?s flamboyant gestures and mouthings begin to stick. A theatrical veneer plates over the quiet man he was; Delia recoils, and ordinary life stops taking him seriously. Wells?s comic nightmare of imitation: what happens when the parts you watch start wearing you instead. Spoken as sharp social wit with a human cost you feel.

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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