The Shape of Things To Come - A Science Fiction Classic (Complete Edition)
By H. G. Wells
Length17h 42m
About this audiobook
The Shape of Things to Come is a work of science fiction, which speculates on future events from 1933 until the year 2106. In the book, a world state is established as the solution to humanity's problems. As a frame story, Wells claims that the book is his edited version of notes written by an eminent diplomat, Dr Philip Raven, who had been having dream visions of a history textbook published in 2106 and wrote down what he could remember of it. Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), known as H. G. Wells, was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, and social commentary, and textbooks and rules for war games.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length17 hrs 42 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 27, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Book the First Today and Tomorrow: The Age of Frustration Dawns
302. Thought and Action: the New Model of Revolution
21. A Chronological Note
313. The Technical Revolutionary
32. How the Idea and Hope of the Modern World State First Appeared
324. Prophets, Pioneers, Fanatics and Murdered Men
43. The Accumulating Disproportions of the Old Order
335. The First Conference at Basra: 1965
54. Early Attempts to Understand and Deal with These Disproportions; The Criticisms of Karl Marx and Henry George
346. The Growth of Resistance to the Sea and Air Ways Control
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65. The Way in Which Competition and Monetary Inefficiency Strained the Old Order
357. Intellectual Antagonism to the Modern State
76. The Paradox of Over-Production and Its Relation to War
368. The Second Conference at Basra, 1978
87. The Great War of 1914-1918
379. “Three Courses of Action”
98. The Impulse to Abolish War; The Episode of the Ford Peace Ship
3810. The Life-Time Plan
109. The Direct Action of the Armament Industries in Maintaining War Stresses
3911. The Real Struggle for Government Begins
1110. Versailles: Seed Bed of Disasters
40Book the Fourth The Modern State Militant
1211. The Impulse to Abolish War: Why the League of Nations Failed to Pacify the World
411. Gap in the Text
1312. The Breakdown of “Finance” and Social Morale after Versailles
422. Melodramatic Interlude
1413. 1933: “Progress” Comes to a Halt
433. Futile Insurrection
15Book the Second The Days After Tomorrow: The Age of Frustration
444. The Schooling of Mankind
161. The London Conference: the Crowning Failure of the Old Governments; The Spread of Dictatorships and Fascisms
455. The Text Resumes: The Tyranny of the Second Council
172. The Sloughing of the Old Educational Tradition
466. Æsthetic Frustration: The Note Books of Ariston Theotocopulos
183. Disintegration and Crystallization in the Social Magma. The Gangster and Militant Political Organizations
477. The Declaration of Mégève
194. Changes in War Practice after the World War
48Book the Fifth The Modern State in Control of Life
205. The Fading Vision of a World Pax: Japan Reverts to Warfare
491. Monday Morning in the Creation of a New World
216. The Western Grip on Asia Relaxes
502. Keying Up the Planet
227. The Modern State and Germany
513. Geogonic Planning
238. A Note on Hate and Cruelty
524. Changes in the Control of Behaviour
249. The Last War Cyclone, 1940-50
535. Organization of Plenty
2510. The Raid of the Germs
546. The Average Man Grows Older and Wiser
2611. Europe in 1960
557. Language and Mental Growth
2712. America in Liquidation
568. Sublimation of Interest
28Book the Third The World Renascence: The Birth of the Modern State
579. A New Phase in the History of Life
291. The Plan of the Modern State Is Worked Out
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