Shadows of the Future: H G Wells, Science, Fiction and Prophecy
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Book Overview
H. G. Wells, the inventor of the concept of the time machine and the phrase 'the Shape of Things to Come' described his life's work as one of 'critical anticipation'. Shadows of the Future identifies this attempt to imagine possible futures as the unifying principle behind Wells's diverse and sometimes wayward literary career. Described by John Middleton Murry as 'the last prophet of bourgeois Europe', he was also its first futurologist.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0853234493
ISBN13:9780853234494
Release Date:July 1995
Publisher:Liverpool University Press
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Customer Reviews
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Antiutopianism at its best!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
This book suceeds in it's purpose of conveying the blatant themes that run through all of H.G. Wells writing. The idea of a deteriorating society rather than a society that approaches an utopia is common throughout. People's apathy destructs society and crumbles the human existance, to such an extent that all forms of organized life wil eventually disappear.
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