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The Sea Raiders

Author
H. G. Wells
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
20 pages
ISBN
9781787242081
Published
5 March 2017
Imprint
Fantastica
  • Science fiction
  • sci fi
  • h.g. wells
  • philosophy
  • adventure
  • action
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • time travel
  • future

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Retired tea-dealer Fison, walking the Sidmouth cliffs toward Ladram Bay, finds tentacles on a corpse below Jacob’s Ladder. Haploteuthis ferox has come ashore to feed. Boatman Hill is pulled under, a pleasure-boat overturns, and the Devon shallows become a hunting ground where oars and courage are not enough. A short, sharp horror of the ocean coming inland to eat.

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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