The World Set Free

H. G. Wells

• Fantasy
• Book language: English
• 166 pages

The World Set Free is a speculative novel by H. G. Wells, written in 1913 and published in 1914. It imagines a new source of atomic energy, a catastrophic future war, and the later attempt to create a lasting world order. It is worth listening to for its early vision of technology's power to destroy and to unite.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.