?The World Set Free is a crucial novel in Wells?s amazing effort, and it?s great to see it in a new edition.??Kim Stanley Robinson, author of The Ministry for the Future?A breathless story of great wars of World Powers, of hovering aeroplanes with atomic bombs, and of peace between Kings in a World Council.? ?Sinclair Lewis, Detroit Free Press (1914)?The color, vigor, and picturesqueness of Mr. Wells?s description of this last war combine to produce an amazing effect.? ?The New York Times (1914) ?The World Set Free is not so much fiction as a forecast of a quite improbable future.? ?The Bookman (1914) H.G. Wells (1866?1946) is best known today as author of pioneering scientific romances such as The Time Machine(1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). An influence on sf authors from Olaf Stapledon to Arthur C. Clarke, he was also a social critic and futurist who penned dozens of novels, stories, and works of history and social commentary in which he proposed more rational ways to organize society.