Abstract
EVEN more vividly than in the argument of “The Shape of Things to Come”, Mr. H. G. Wells depicts the swift downfall of modern civilisation and the rise of a new and scientific order of society. His adaptation to the writing of a novel of something of the technique of a film story enables him to emphasise the more forcefully the inevitableness of some such order of society as an alternative to war. Equally without unduly stressing the horrors of warfare, his dramatic technique may perhaps stimulate many to realise the dangers of the present situation on whom the logical analysis of Sir Norman Angell, for example, would be lost. The scientific worker may well find as much interest in the technique with which Mr. Wells develops his argument as in the picture he gives of an imaginary scientific age.
Things to Come
By H. G. Wells. A Film Story based on the Material contained in his History of the Future “The Shape of Things to Come”. Pp. 142. (London: The Cresset Press, 1935.) 3s. 6d. net.
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Things to Come. Nature 137, 50 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137050a0
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