The World Set Free
by H. G. Wells
“The hauntingly accurate vision that predicted the nuclear age decades before it began.”
H. G. Wells' chillingly prophetic 1914 masterpiece envisions the dawn of the atomic age and the catastrophic global conflict that follows. As the world burns under the fire of perpetual 'atomic bombs,' humanity faces a desperate choice between total extinction and a radical rebirth of civilization.
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