The World Set Free
Bauer Books, H. G. Wells
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Belletristik / Gegenwartsliteratur (ab 1945)
Beschreibung
The book is based on a prediction of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort of weapon than the world has yet seen.
A frequent theme of Wells's work, as in his 1901 nonfiction book
Anticipations, was the history of humans' mastery of power and energy through technological advance, seen as a determinant of human progress. The novel begins: "The history of mankind is the history of the attainment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire-making animal. . . . Always down a lengthening record, save for a set-back ever and again, he is doing more
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herland, war of the worlds, armageddon, weapons, master of the world, lovecraft, nuclear weapon, verne, invisible man, wwii, allan poe, the martian, tesla inventions, h g wells