Shadows of the Future: H G Wells, Science, Fiction and Prophecy: 6 (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies) - Softcover

Parrinder, Patrick

 
9780853234494: Shadows of the Future: H G Wells, Science, Fiction and Prophecy: 6 (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies)

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H. G. Wells, the inventor of the concept of the time machine and the phrase ‘the Shape of Things to Come’ described his life’s work as one of ‘critical anticipation’. Shadows of the Future identifies this attempt to imagine possible futures as the unifying principle behind Wells’s diverse and sometimes wayward literary career. Described by John Middleton Murry as ‘the last prophet of bourgeois Europe’, he was also its first futurologist.

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Patrick Parrinder is Professor in the School of English and American Literature at the University of Reading. He has been a contributor to the London Review of Books.

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