The City of Dr Moreau (novel)
The City of Dr Moreau was the second Travers & Wells novella and the fourth book in Candy Jar Books' paperback novella line tying into the Lethbridge-Stewart series. It was released in 2021.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
Edward Travers and HG Wells are flung once again into an alternative reality: a London both achingly familiar and quite unlike the city either of them know. In the dying days of the Edwardian empire, public protests over the increasing use of vivisection in animal research collide with rising fears about looming war.
Connecting both is the mysterious Dr Moreau. Wells is fascinated by the accomplished scientist, but Travers is horrified by the dark truth of the man that he previously had believed to be mere fiction.
As the two men begin to discover the purpose behind their adventures out of time and come face to face with who is controlling their journey, they pursue Moreau to the inevitable conclusion: his very own island of creation, a perverse garden of Eden that’s very close to home...
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Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Travers and Wells meet in The Midnight Bell, which is the pub that is the main location of the books collectively known as Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky (1934) by Patrick Hamilton.
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- This novel was also released as a limited edition Harback only availabel from the Candy Jar Books website.[1]
- Travers mentions the phrase 'things to come', invoking the name of a HG Wells story that the latter has not yet written.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Jackson mentions that he expected HG Wells to refer to himself as George (as opposed to Herbert), to be fair-haired, and to be more outspoken, all references to the 'real life' version of HG Wells, rather than the in-universe one we see in Timelash.
- When Travers first encounters the bear, he momentarily wonders if it's a Yeti, before dismissing the idea of one in London as ridiculous (The events of The Web Of Fear have not yet happened from his perspective).
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official The City of Dr Moreau page at Candy Jar Books
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