Effect of abundant, cheap energy. Tremendous dislocation followed, in time, by a world-wide eutopia.
}, year = {1913}, journal = {The English Review}, volume = { 16 - 17}, pages = {13-42, 186-210, 321-41, 468-94; 30-57, 179-209}, month = {12/1913}, note = {Three excerpts were published in Century Magazine--\“A Trap to Catch the Sun\” 87 (January 1914): 331-34; \“The Last War in the World\” 87 (February 1914): 566-85; and \“The World Set Free\” 87 (March 1914): 696-711. Repub. as The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind. London: Macmillan, 1914. Rpt. as The World Set Free. London: The Hogarth Press, 1988, with an \ \“Introduction\” by Brian Aldiss [1-7]; and as The Last War. A World Set Free. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1914. Rpt. The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with an \“Introduction: A Crash Louder Than Thunder\” by Sarah Cole (xv-xiv), a \“Preface\” by Wells from 1921 (xxv-xxvii), and an \“Afterword: Shall We Play the Game\” by Joshua Glenn (243-252), originally published as \“War and Peace Games: H. G. Wells\’s battle against kriegspiel.\” Cabinet Magazine, no. 45 (Spring 2012). https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/45/glenn.php. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XXI The World Set Free and Other War Papers (New York: Charles Scribner\’s Sons, 1926), 1-249. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells\’s works.
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