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“Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.” The book affected much of the world’s collective conscience. Over the decades, this awareness extended to oppressions of all types and degrees of sensitivity. What began as a rail against genocide splintered to contemporary issues over the evils of racism, discrimination in public accommodation, establishment of Native American sovereignty, and most recently concerns over safe spaces. The reader must decide where Wells’ opinions would have fit in the spectrum. In this ‘scientific romance’ Wells introduced a new world. Items and ideas common and familiar today crash landed on the late Victorian world like a battleship falling from the sky. There was first contact, and interplanetary conflict. How many books and films subsequently used a variation of the heat ray? The poison gas echoes, sadly, down to today.
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Published: 2018-05
- Pages: 236
- ISBN-13: 9781717566379
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