Herbert George Wells

variant of H. G. Wells
Short Story

The New Accelerator


The narrator and Professor Gibberne test the professor’s potion that will speed up their metabolisms by a factor of a thousand or more. —Michael Main
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?”
Black-and-white drawing of two middle-aged Englishmen in a sparse laboratory
                discussing a vial of liquid.
  • Science Fiction
  • Time Phenomena