Phoenix: A Summary of the Inescapable Conditions of World Reorganisation.

WELLS, H.G.

Item Number: 108296

London: Secker & Warburg, 1942.

Early printing of Wells’ argument and outline for world reorganization. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

Often referred to as the "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback, English writer H.G. Wells was prolific in many genres, publishing dozens of novels and novellas in addition to treatises on social commentary, history, and two books on recreational war games. Although he is now most remembered for his works of science fiction, during his lifetime he was most prominent as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. A futurist, he wrote a number of Utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and the internet.