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The Stolen Bacillus

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
14 minutes
ISBN
9781802561876
Published
4 December 2024
Imprint
Fantastica
  • Science fiction
  • sci fi
  • h.g. wells
  • philosophy
  • adventure
  • action
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • time travel
  • future

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Description

An anarchist steals a tube labelled cholera from a London bacteriologist and flees by cab, the scientist’s wife hard behind. Hooves, a smash, and a colour-germ that only blues the skin turn terror into punchline back at the lab. Short-story farce of panic and pigment: the city thinks it is doomed and is only dyed.

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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