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The World Set Free
H. G. Wells wrote contemporary novels, social commentaries, history and is best known for science fiction. Before nuclear weapons were developed Wells imagined an atomic bomb, which was accurate. Wells looks at the role of energy and technology in man's development. Wells concludes that man must either retreat to an agricultural society or use science as the basis for a new cultural order.
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The World Set Free
H. G. Wells wrote contemporary novels, social commentaries, history and is best known for science fiction. Before nuclear weapons were developed Wells imagined an atomic bomb, which was accurate. Wells looks at the role of energy and technology in man's development. Wells concludes that man must either retreat to an agricultural society or use science as the basis for a new cultural order.
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The World Set Free

The World Set Free

by H. G. Wells
The World Set Free

The World Set Free

by H. G. Wells

Overview

H. G. Wells wrote contemporary novels, social commentaries, history and is best known for science fiction. Before nuclear weapons were developed Wells imagined an atomic bomb, which was accurate. Wells looks at the role of energy and technology in man's development. Wells concludes that man must either retreat to an agricultural society or use science as the basis for a new cultural order.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781605971049
Publisher: Book Jungle
Publication date: 02/18/2008
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

About The Author
H.G. Wells (1866–1946) is best known today as author of pioneering scientific romances such as The Time Machine(1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). An influence on sf authors from Olaf Stapledon to Arthur C. Clarke, he was also a social critic and futurist who penned dozens of novels, stories, and works of history and social commentary in which he proposed more rational ways to organize society.

Date of Birth:

September 21, 1866

Date of Death:

August 13, 1946

Place of Birth:

Bromley, Kent, England

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Normal School of Science, London, England

Table of Contents

Series Foreword ix
Introduction: A Crash Louder Than Thunder xv
Sarah Cole
Preface xxv

Prelude: The Sun Snares 1
1 The New Source of Energy 25
2 The Last War 63
3 The Ending of War 113
4 The New Phase 163
5 The Last Days of Marcus Karenin 207

Afterword: Shall We Play a Game? 243
Joshua Glenn

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“The World Set Free is a crucial novel in Wells’s amazing effort, and it’s great to see it in a new edition.”
—Kim Stanley Robinson, author of The Ministry for the Future

“A breathless story of great wars of World Powers, of hovering aeroplanes with atomic bombs, and of peace between Kings in a World Council.” 
—Sinclair Lewis, Detroit Free Press (1914)

“The color, vigor, and picturesqueness of Mr. Wells’s description of this last war combine to produce an amazing effect.”
—The New York Times (1914)
 
“The World Set Free is not so much fiction as a forecast of a quite improbable future.”
—The Bookman (1914)

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