The World Set Free

"It is possible that if the book you now hold in your hands had never been published, then our entrance into the Atomic Age would never have happened, or it would at least have been delayed." - from the foreward by Doug Stephens H.G. Wells was foretelling the future when he published his book of atomic warfare in 1914. He didn't get all of the details right, of course, but an amazing amount of what he wrote was right on the money. Wells, the author of "The Time Machine" created a fictional radiation weapon which was so realistic that the scientists of the real-life Manhattan Project used this novel as inspiration. Today, this important novel is resurrected in the hopes that new readers will find in H.G. Wells the same thing generations before them have found - fascinating technology, well-paced writing, and stories worth reading. Written by one of the founding fathers of science fiction, with a new foreword by Doug Stephens, THE WORLD SET FREE is sure to become a resurrected classic.