Shadows of the Future: H. G. Wells, Science Fiction, and ProphecySyracuse University Press, 1995 - 170 páginas H.G. Wells - inventor of the concept of the time machine and the phrase the shape of things to come - described his life's work as one of critical anticipation. This book unravels the complex layers of meaning in The Time Machine, and shows how, throughout his life, he sought to exploit the potential of literary and cultural prophecy in new ways. Described by John Middleton Murry as the last prophet of bourgeois Europe, he was its first futurologist. |
Contenido
Science Fiction and the Shape of Things to Come | 3 |
The Broken Tripod and the Impatient Imagination | 18 |
Possibilities of Space and Time The Time Machine | 34 |
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