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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.

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This is a book which will, indeed, cast its shadow into the future: I venture to prophesy that students of Wells will be reading it for a long time to come.
Michael Sherborne, The Wellsian

Shadows of the Future H G Wells Science Fiction

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      Publisher: Liverpool University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 7/1/1995 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780853234494, 978-0853234494
      ISBN10: 0853234493

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      This is a book which will, indeed, cast its shadow into the future: I venture to prophesy that students of Wells will be reading it for a long time to come.
      Michael Sherborne, The Wellsian

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