Shadows of the Future: H G Wells, Science, Fiction and Prophecy

by Patrick Parrinder

Book Overview

H. G. Wells, the 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'. Shadows of the Future identifies this attempt to imagine possible futures as the unifying principle behind Wells's diverse and sometimes wayward literary career. Described by John Middleton Murry as 'the last prophet of bourgeois Europe', he was also its first futurologist.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853234493
• ISBN13: 9780853234494
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Antiutopianism at its best!

This book suceeds in it's purpose of conveying the blatant themes that run through all of H.G. Wells writing. The idea of a deteriorating society rather than a society that approaches an utopia is common throughout. People's apathy destructs society and crumbles the human existance, to such an extent that all forms of organized life wil eventually disappear.