Book 1993

The Shape of Things to Come

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Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Published: 1993

Modern History
Prophecies
Forecasts
Twenty-first century
Twentieth century
Civilization
Fiction in English
Science Fiction

A futuristic novel in which Wells predicts, along with the Second World War, an eventual rise of a World State run by a benevolent dictatorship. This state promotes science over religion and enforces English as a global language and finally paves the way for a true Utopian State.