Short Fiction · Character
Professor Gibberne
A brilliant physiologist and neighbor in Folkestone who, seeking a nervous stimulant, invents the New Accelerator and revolutionizes human experience.
supporting
Also known as Gibberne
First appearance: The New Accelerator
As a supporting figure in Short Fiction, Professor Gibberne is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
The inventor of the New Accelerator, a physiologist and chemist who seeks a universal nervous stimulant.
Gibberne is a celebrated researcher into drugs and the nervous system, a mighty jester with a Mephistophelean face who talks through his work with the narrator over pipes and whisky. He set out to find an all-round stimulant for languid people and instead found something that accelerates human life beyond anything he intended. His discovery is the story's engine, and his partnership with the narrator—part friendship, part experiment—gives the tale its intimate, wondering voice.
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- Diverse strange tales
- Protagonist
- Prehistoric survival story
- Fantastical experiments and doors
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See Professor Gibberne in The New Accelerator