The World Set Free - Couverture souple

Wells, H. G. G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1847537480 ISBN 13 : 9781847537485

Editeur : Lulu.com, 2007

Synopsis

“ ‘It has begun,’ he writes in the diary in which these things are recorded. ‘It is not for me to reach out to consequences I cannot foresee. I am a part, not a whole; I am a little instrument in the armoury of Change. If I were to burn all these papers, before a score of years had passed, some other man would be doing this. . . ’ ” H.G. Wells classic “The World Set Free”, written in 1913 and originally published in 1914, predicting the atomic bomb. A true literary gem.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Herbert George "H. G." Wells was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. Wells is sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction. His most notable science fiction works include The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau. This book truly shows Wells was a man way before his time.. The book foreshadows nuclear warfare years before research began and describes the chain reactions involved and the resulting radiation. Wells describes a weapon of enormous destructive power, used from the air that would wipe out everything for miles, and actually used the term "atomic bombs." Futuristic Science Fiction at its best....

Présentation de l'éditeur

THE WORLD SET FREE was written in 1913 and published early in 1914, and it is the latest of a series of three fantasias of possibility, stories which all turn on the possible developments in the future of some contemporary force or group of forces. The World Set Free was written under the immediate shadow of the Great War. Every intelligent person in the world felt that disaster was impending and knew no way of averting it, but few of us realised in the earlier half of 1914 how near the crash was to us. The reader will be amused to find that here it is put off until the year 1956.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lulu.com
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1847537480
• ISBN 13: 9781847537485
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 156
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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