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The invisible man H.G. Wells The invisible man is a remarkable story from 1897. It is pure science fiction, the story being based on technical constructions. Yet it shows what horror technics can bring. The story is about a man who invents a device that makes him invisible. Working on it, he dreams of all the possibilities and advances invisibility gives him. But as soon as he makes himself invisible, he only has the disadvantages of it. Because he is bad tempered person, easily angered and very violent, he gets himself into more and more trouble. The people surrounding him see either a strange, fully clad man, or mysteriously moving things... both gives them the creeps, what gets the invisible man in even more trouble. The idea behind the story is timeless - which makes it a classic story that is still readable. The basic idea of technical science conquering mankind - and especially the greedy and the evil samples of mankind - can be found in many other science fiction stories. Only one part of the story looks very steampunk: the description of the functions of the device to make things invisible (chapter 20). It mentions ether-vibrations, and "this will be explained later". It never is really explained later, and to me it is unknown if Wells believed like a 19th century scholar in the existence of ether, or that he just jumped in a rumour to make the story halfway believable. The LeagueAn invisible man is one of the characters in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie. However, they seemed to have failed to capture the spirit of "being invisible". First, the idea is that you only can be invisible when being an albino (having no pigment). And second, they say being invisible is extraordinary, but they don't show the disadvantages.The way the invisibility is explained, doesn't fit the original either. © Yaghish 2003 |
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