The Crystal Egg, by H G Wells
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2023
- In a small grimy shop selling bric-a-brac and antiquities in Seven Dials, London, was a large crystal egg. The shop's proprietor, a Mr. C Cave, was reluctant to sell, even when offered the outrageous sum of five pounds! His step-family didn't understand, there was so much they could with a fortune like that!
What was it about that crystal egg that presented Mr. Cave from selling?
"The Crystal Egg" was published in "Tales of Space and Time," Harper & Brothers, London and New York, 1900.
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Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. He wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography. Wells' science fiction novels are so well regarded that he has been called the "father of science fiction".
As a futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web. His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility and biological engineering before these subjects were common in the genre. Brian Aldiss referred to Wells as the "Shakespeare of science fiction."
Wells rendered his works convincing by instilling commonplace detail alongside a single extraordinary assumption per work - dubbed "Wells's law." His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), which was his first novel, The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), the military science fiction The War in the Air (1907), and the dystopian When the Sleeper Wakes (1910).
Wells was a diabetic and co-founded the charity The Diabetic Association (Diabetes UK) in 1934.
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Terrific reading
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DANG! Herby posited quantum entanglement!
By jove! I think you're right. I hadn't seen that.
I read story years ago and it stuck with me but I could not recall the title or author. I’m glad I came across this.
I'm happy to have provided a little nostalgia.
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5lbs in 1897 when this was written would be about $850 us dollars.
It's actually about $1,013.
@@paullawleyjoneseither price seems more than a clergyman would be likely to have in his pocket, no matter how much he skimmed off the collection plate
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Based on a true story
The sea people. 33:52
The DC people
Swimming upon aethr waves….watchers watching.
Seeing through sea locks in and out of time.
Whirled wound down. Trestle boards sprawl. Endless. Bound.
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Watchington. Watchingtin.
Ticking tocking. Where in . Eggis Thin
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@@paullawleyjoneslovely voice and timely choice.
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A good story , well read, ruined by crass advertizements at less than five minute intervals, often mid sentence. Am I the onlly person who takes note of the products in these deliberate "spoilers" in order to actively avoid ever buying them?
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Black Holland, was some kind of woolen cloth i presume?
Holland is a plain-woven or dull finish linen, or a cotton fabric rendered opaque by a glazed or unglazed finish (Holland finish.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland_cloth
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Too many ads 😢
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That writing is so ponderous I feel I'm jogging in wet concrete.
I think a lot of Victorian era writing is like that.
You're right. Arthur Conan Doyle was a cut above. Can you mention another?
That’s the way stories were written then
yes, sadly
what a dismal little boring soap opera
That was H G Wells' thing; surrounding a fantastical object or event with mundane details.
What a boring, dismal, little comment in the ether of the internet soap opera.