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
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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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9788834164297 ● File size 0.4 MB ● Publisher Bauer Books ● Published 2022 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7104431 ● Copy protection without
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