The World Set Free
$62.92
- Paperback
280 pages
- Release Date
16 May 2022
Summary
The World Set Free: A Prophetic Vision of Atomic Apocalypse and Utopian Dawn
In a novel written on the eve of World War I, H. G. Wells imagines a war “to end all wars” that begins in atomic apocalypse but ends in an enlightened utopia.
Writing in 1913, on the eve of World War I’s mass slaughter and long before World War II’s mushroom cloud finale, H. G. Wells imagined a war that begins in atomic apocalypse but ends in a utopia of enlightened world government. Set in the 1950…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262543361 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262543362 |
| Series: | MIT Press / Radium Age |
| Author: | H.G. Wells, Sarah Cole |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 16 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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“The World Set Free, with its predictions of aerial warfare, atomic bombs, and international peace conferences, takes first place in the Nostradamus sweepstakes for those who prefer their science fiction to be predictive.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
About The Author
H.G. Wells
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.
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