H. G. Wells 4 hr 8 min read

Wells the prophet forecasts the twentieth century: its traffic, its cities, its wars, its faiths, the book that launched his career as a futurist.

H. G. Wells's 1901 nonfiction landmark reasons systematically toward the coming century's transformations, from the diffusion of great cities to war in the twentieth century, with startling hits and revealing misses. The work that made Wells a public sage. Read it for the foundational document of modern futurology, by science fiction's founding imagination.

In its time

Published in 1901, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

4 hr 8 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).