H. G. Wells ~6 hr read

Wells lays out his blueprint for a world state, and invents a doubled self to walk its streets.

H. G. Wells's 1905 landmark blends fiction and treatise, imagining a planet-wide utopia governed by a voluntary order of 'samurai,' explored by a narrator and his companion who find their doubles living there. Restless and self-questioning, it's one of the most influential utopian works of the century, shaping political imagination for generations. Read it for Wells the thinker at full stretch, arguing the future into being.

In its time

Published in 1905, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).