The New Accelerator

by H. G. Wells

• Release: December 1901
• Format: Short Story
• Genre: Science Fiction
• Audience: Adults
• Content: Time Phenomena
• Original Language: English

I sat down. “Give me the potion,” I said. “If the worst comes to the worst it will save having my hair cut, and that I think is one of the most hateful duties of a civilized man. How do you take the mixture?”

VARIANTS

4 English variants

TRANSLATIONS

No translations.

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

• Circa AD 1900 to 1929: presumed time period

Themes

• Altered Metabolic Rates

Groupings

• About Time (anthology)
• Amazing Stories (periodical): April 1926
• Cited in Worlds Enough and Time, edited by Gary Westfahl ()
• The Strand Magazine (periodical): December 1901
• Cited in Time Machines by Paul J. Nahin ()