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"My feeling is that the chance of our surviving into the twenty-first century as working civilization is less than fifty percent but greater than zero."
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Griffen, a somewhat obsessive and unpleasant 22 year old student, turns himself invisible in large part to avoid enquiries into his work by the authorities. They have confused his turning a cat invisible with vivisection - doubtless an easy mistake to make, not least when it jump-starts the book's plot.
Now on the run, Griffen explains the science of invisibility at very great and wearisome length to his friend Dr. Kemp.
Contemporary research into invisibility tends to concentrate on active camouflage systems, as described in Wired and demonstrated at Tokyo University, rather than on altering the basic constituents of the human body.
Armoably Wells - or Griffen - was pipped to the post by Charles Dodgson, an Oxford University mathematics lecturer who, writing as Lewis Carroll introduced us in the 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to the Cheshire Cat, famed for disappearing gradually until only his grin remained.
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