THE WORLD SET FREE
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The World Set Free is a novel written by H. G. Wells n 1913 and published in 1914. The book is based on a prediction of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort of weapon than the world has yet seen, the atomic bomb. It had appeared first in serialized form with a different ending as A Prophetic Trilogy, consisting of three books: A Trap to Catch the Sun, The Last War in the World and The World Set Free. A Trap to Catch the Sun was published by Century Magazine in January 1914. 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.
THE WORLD SET FREE
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