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Title: The World Set Free
Author: H. G. Wells
Narrator: Eric Brooks
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-07-12
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 18 votes
Genres: Classics, British Literature
Publisher's Summary:
The World Set Free is a novel published in 1914 by H. G. Wells. The book is considered a prophetical novel foretelling the advent of nuclear weapons. A constant theme in Wells work, such as his 1901 nonfiction book Anticipations, was the role of energy and technological advance as a determinant of human progress.
The novel opens with this: "The story of mankind is the history of the attainment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire-making animal." Scientists of the day were well aware that the slow natural radioactive decay of elements like radium continues for thousands of years, and that while the rate of energy release is negligible, the total amount released is huge. Wells used this as the basis for his story.
Editorial Reviews:
Wells describes nuclear weapons as the most destructive power imaginable in a novel written in the early 1900s. Much of what Wells hypothesizes now qualifies as prophecy since coming true. Wells studied the cutting-edge science of his time and planted what he learned in this futuristic novel. The theme will be familiar to Wells fans: Mankind is power-hungry, and human progress is determined by the speed and sophistication of technological advancement. Narrator Eric Brooks British accent and professorial tone match the philosophical-sounding text. Brooks fleshes out the characters and the plot, but like Wells himself Brooks main focus is the theme; he thoughtfully conveys Wells near psychic expository rhetoric.
Members Reviews:
pedagogically pedantic
Like listening to a lecture on history, some of which just hasn't happened yet, by Ben Stein's character The Economics teacher from Ferris Bueler's Day Off. But if you can get through the dry stuff, there are some really good but scary prescient tidbits.
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Title: The World Set Free
Author: H. G. Wells
Narrator: Eric Brooks
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-07-12
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 18 votes
Genres: Classics, British Literature
Publisher's Summary:
The World Set Free is a novel published in 1914 by H. G. Wells. The book is considered a prophetical novel foretelling the advent of nuclear weapons. A constant theme in Wells work, such as his 1901 nonfiction book Anticipations, was the role of energy and technological advance as a determinant of human progress.
The novel opens with this: "The story of mankind is the history of the attainment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire-making animal." Scientists of the day were well aware that the slow natural radioactive decay of elements like radium continues for thousands of years, and that while the rate of energy release is negligible, the total amount released is huge. Wells used this as the basis for his story.
Editorial Reviews:
Wells describes nuclear weapons as the most destructive power imaginable in a novel written in the early 1900s. Much of what Wells hypothesizes now qualifies as prophecy since coming true. Wells studied the cutting-edge science of his time and planted what he learned in this futuristic novel. The theme will be familiar to Wells fans: Mankind is power-hungry, and human progress is determined by the speed and sophistication of technological advancement. Narrator Eric Brooks British accent and professorial tone match the philosophical-sounding text. Brooks fleshes out the characters and the plot, but like Wells himself Brooks main focus is the theme; he thoughtfully conveys Wells near psychic expository rhetoric.
Members Reviews:
pedagogically pedantic
Like listening to a lecture on history, some of which just hasn't happened yet, by Ben Stein's character The Economics teacher from Ferris Bueler's Day Off. But if you can get through the dry stuff, there are some really good but scary prescient tidbits.