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The World Set Free

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
Sebastian Blackwood
Language
English
Length
6 hours
ISBN
9781787369856
Published
29 April 2024
Imprint
Fantastica
  • nuclear energy
  • atomic bomb
  • world war
  • utopia
  • future society
  • technological advancement
  • global conflict
  • social order
  • nationalism
  • self-destruction

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Description

Atomic energy remakes the world, then fuels a war that nearly ends it, until survivors try to build a new order beyond nationalism. Wells’s prophetic novel of power, progress, and rebirth after catastrophe. Spoken as usable future-warning when wonder and weapon arrive in the same discovery and peace has to be invented next.

Author

H. G. Wells (1866–1946) was born in Bromley, trained in biology under Huxley, and turned that laboratory habit into fiction. The Time Machine sent a Victorian into deep time; The War of the Worlds brought the sky down on the Home Counties. He wrote as if the future were a social problem with monsters attached. The novels argue while they entertain. A draper's son who made scientific romance a public language.

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