In 1933 a scientist called Holsten discovered artificial radioactivity: by 1953 this new form of energy had revolutionised transport and industry - and in 1956 the world was devastated by an atomic war...
This was the grim future that Wells envisaged in 1913, and his vision has proved uncannily accurate. Although the final catastrophe that he foresaw in this "fantasia of possibilities" has not yet come about, this book has become a classic and is still disturbingly relevant in a world living under the threat of the bomb....
This was the grim future that Wells envisaged in 1913, and his vision has proved uncannily accurate. Although the final catastrophe that he foresaw in this "fantasia of possibilities" has not yet come about, this book has become a classic and is still disturbingly relevant in a world living under the threat of the bomb....
