The Shape of Things to Come

This is the annotated edition including the rare biographical essay by Edwin E. Slosson called “H. G. Wells — A Major Prophet Of His Time”.

How would you like to live in a time when you could do pretty much as you pleased? With no worry about food, drink, clothing, health and personal freedom? That is the blessed state which Mr. Wells pictures for the early years of the twenty-second century. But even this ideal Socialist World State faces problems of some kind …