Man is the tool-using, fire-making animal. .
The novel begins: "The history of mankind is the history of the attainment of external power. Plot Ī frequent theme of Wells's work, as in his 1901 nonfiction book Anticipations, was the history of humans' mastery of power and energy through technological advance, seen as a determinant of human progress. It had appeared first in serialised form with a different ending as A Prophetic Trilogy, consisting of three books: A Trap to Catch the Sun, The Last War in the World and The World Set Free.
The book is based on a prediction of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort of weapon than the world has yet seen. The World Set Free is a novel written in 1913 and published in 1914 by H.
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