Description
A chance experiment by a brilliant but overreaching scientist leads to the discovery of an elixir that accelerates the body and mind to startling degrees. Though the user feels no personal change, the outside world seems to slow into near immobility—until only the fastest motions reveal what’s really happening. Blending speculative invention with sharp psychological insight, the story explores what it means to perceive time, to chase “new sensations,” and to confront the unintended consequences of technological power. In H. G. Wells’s characteristically vivid, idea-driven style, the narrative turns a single breakthrough into a meditation on human limits, speed, and the fragile boundary between progress and disruption.
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Published Feb 16, 2017
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1901
Language
eng
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