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Scientific and Horrific Stories (Paperback)
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Scientific and Horrific Stories (Paperback)
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Loot Price R359
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Scientific and Horrific Stories is a collection of short fiction by
H. G. Wells. Despite his humble beginnings as the son of English
servants, H. G. Wells would become one of the most revered writers
of his day. His stories of adventure, utopia, and terror inspired
such vastly different figures as Vladimir Nabokov, Winston
Churchill, Jorge Luis Borges, and Sinclair Lewis. Many of his
novels have been adapted for film, theater, radio, and television,
including The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau
(1896), and The War of the Worlds (1898). Scientific and Horrific
Stories includes twenty-six tales from across Wells' career. "The
Chronic Argonauts," written while Wells was recuperating from an
illness with friends in Stoke-on-Trent, is a story of time travel
set in rural Wales that predates his beloved The Time Machine by
seven years. "AEpyornis Island" is a terrifying tale of greed and
survival that originally appeared in an 1894 issue of the Pall Mall
Budget. Tasked with finding rare Aepyornis eggs, a rugged
Englishman named Butcher ventures to a remote swamp on the island
of Madagascar. When one of the eggs unexpectedly hatches, he is
left stranded and at the mercy of a vicious creature that was
believed to be extinct. In "The Diamond Maker," which also appeared
in the Pall Mall Budget, a destitute man tells a wealthy
businessman about his years as a maker of artificial diamonds, a
time of great promise that ultimately led to his downfall. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of H. G. Wells' Scientific and Horrific Stories is a
classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.
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