{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5db8","title":"My First Aeroplane","publish_year":1910,"publish_source":"The Strand Magazine","publish_edition":"Vol. 39, No. 229","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/TheStrandMagazineAnIllustratedMonthly/TheStrandMagazine1910aVol.XxxixJan-jun/page/n67/mode/2up","author":"H. G. Wells","code":"my-first-aeroplane","words":4289,"image":"action.jpg","image_alt":"A small propellor plane flying away from an explosion. Graphite filter.","genres":["quirky","sci-fi"],"blurb":"Perhaps I did bowl a few people over; but progress is progress.","description":"An adventurous man with his head in the clouds finally convinces his mother to let him order one of those new ‘Aeroplanes’. All the instructors are booked out, but the man is sure he can figure out how it works and become the first of his town to fly.","rating":4,"unique_cover":"Colourful drawing of a man in a propellor aeroplane flying over panicking people and tangled by wires.","cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}