H. G. Wells 3 hr 49 min read

A distinguished bacteriologist hands a visitor a tube of deadly cholera to admire, never suspecting the pale, intense stranger is an anarchist who means to loose the plague on London.

H. G. Wells's 1895 collection gathers his early short fiction. Witty, inventive, superbly turned. Read it for a sparkling assortment of Wells's earliest tales, the title bioterror comedy plus strange orchids, a flying man, and Aepyornis Island, showing the young master's gift for the eerie, the ironic, and the scientifically uncanny.

In its time

Published in 1895, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

3 hr 49 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).