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Under The Knife

Author
H. G. Wells
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
26 pages
ISBN
9781787242074
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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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. Wells's brief tale of anaesthetic terror and the mind's flight beyond the body. Usable listening for anyone curious how consciousness feels when the knife comes.

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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