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"Building on the recent discovery that "the atom, that once we thought hard and impenetrable, and indivisible and final and - lifeless - lifeless, is really a reservoir of immense energy," Wells conjures a 1950s England in which clean, efficient atomic engines have transformed life for the better. Alas, a world war breaks out, in which atomic bombs wipe out the world's great cities. Worldwide civilization is on the brink of collapse, when a conference of enlightened monarchs, presidents, powerful journalists, and scientists gathers in order to establish a peaceful one-world order. When one Kissinger-like figure begins to strategize about maintaining national autonomy and monarchical authority within this utopian world government, another character shuts him up with one word: "BANG!""-- Provided by publisher
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The World Set Free, H. G. Wells
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2022
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- Titel
- The World Set Free
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- H. G. Wells
- Verlag
- The MIT Press
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2022
- Seitenzahl
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0262543362
- ISBN13
- 9780262543361
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Abenteuer, Sci-Fi, Abenteuerliteratur, Kriegsliteratur, Alternativgeschichte
- Beschreibung
- "Building on the recent discovery that "the atom, that once we thought hard and impenetrable, and indivisible and final and - lifeless - lifeless, is really a reservoir of immense energy," Wells conjures a 1950s England in which clean, efficient atomic engines have transformed life for the better. Alas, a world war breaks out, in which atomic bombs wipe out the world's great cities. Worldwide civilization is on the brink of collapse, when a conference of enlightened monarchs, presidents, powerful journalists, and scientists gathers in order to establish a peaceful one-world order. When one Kissinger-like figure begins to strategize about maintaining national autonomy and monarchical authority within this utopian world government, another character shuts him up with one word: "BANG!""-- Provided by publisher