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The World Set Free
- Narrated by: Eric Brooks
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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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.
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- Donald
- 2018-03-29
The monotonous narrator nearly put me to sleep.
I am seldom critical of audiobooks however, I was disappointed by this one. Had this been the first HG Wells book I read I would not have gone on to another. I had to increase playback speed to 1.3 so I would not fall asleep!
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