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Under The Knife

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
40 minutes
ISBN
9781802561951
Published
6 December 2024
Imprint
Fantastica
  • Science fiction
  • sci fi
  • h.g. wells
  • philosophy
  • adventure
  • action
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • time travel
  • future

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Description

Facing surgery under chloroform, a patient slips into an out-of-body cosmic vision of space and fate before waking to find Haddon's knife has saved him. Spoken as when the operating table still asks what the mind sees when the body goes dark.

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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