Effect of abundant, cheap energy. Tremendous dislocation followed, in time, by a world-wide eutopia.
BT - The English Review C5 -L
C6 -(1866-1946)
C7 - December 1913 - May 1914 DA - 12/1913 LA - eng N1 -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.
N2 -Effect of abundant, cheap energy. Tremendous dislocation followed, in time, by a world-wide eutopia.
PY - 1913 SP - 13 EP - 42 SP - 186 EP - 210 SP - 321 EP - 41 SP - 468 EP - 57 SP - 179 EP - 209 T2 - The English Review TI - "The World Set Free; A Story of Mankind" VL - 16 - 17 ER -