The Shape of Things to Come
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The Shape of Things to Come

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The Shape of Things to Come

About this book

H.G. Wells'  The Shape of Things to Come (1933) is a "future history" novel presented as a manuscript from the future, chronicling humanity's path from global chaos in the mid-20th century (WWII, economic collapse, chemical warfare) towards a scientific, rational world state by the 21st century, advocating for global unity and scientific progress over nationalism and conflict, despite its dark predictions and utopian ideals. 

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Table of contents

  1. The Shape of Things to Come
  2. Dedication, To
  3. Introduction
  4. Book the First
  5. 1: A Chronological Note
  6. 3: The Accumulating Disproportions of the Old Order
  7. 7: The Great War of 1914-1918
  8. Book the Second
  9. 2: The Sloughing of the Old Educational Tradition
  10. 6: The Western Grip on Asia Relaxes
  11. 7: The Modern State and Germany
  12. 8: A Note on Hate and Cruelty
  13. 9: The Last War Cyclone, 1940-50
  14. 10: The Raid of the Germs
  15. 11: Europe in 1960
  16. 12: America in Liquidation
  17. Book the Third
  18. 3: The Technical Revolutionary
  19. 4: Prophets, Pioneers, Fanatics and Murdered Men
  20. 7: Intellectual Antagonism to the Modern State
  21. 8: The Second Conference at Basra, 1978
  22. 9: “Three Courses of Action”
  23. 10: The Lifetime Plan
  24. 11: The Real Struggle for Government Begins
  25. Book the Fourth, The Modern State Militant
  26. 1: Gap in the Text
  27. 2: Melodramatic Interlude
  28. 3: Futile Insurrection
  29. 4: The Schooling of Mankind
  30. Book the Fifth
  31. 2: Keying Up the Planet
  32. 3: Geogonic Planning
  33. 4: Changes in the Control of Behaviour
  34. 5: Organization of Plenty
  35. 6: The Average Man Grows Older and Wiser
  36. 7: Language and Mental Growth
  37. 8: Sublimation of Interest