Name: The World Set Free
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Author: H. G. Wells

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FL-0464E.V.

WELLS, H. G.

The World Set Free

1914

The novel that gave the world the phrase "atomic bomb" — and got the physics unnervingly close to right, thirty years before Hiroshima. Leo Szilard read it in 1932 and…

1. Politics 2. Science Fiction

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Part of H. G. Wells: The Complete Works, which reads in order.

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H. G. Wells The World Set Free Overview This is the book that put the words “atomic bomb” into English, and imagined one going off — not a metaphor, an actual bomb built on the actual physics of radioactive decay, right down to the half-life — thirty-one years before Hiroshima. Wells wrote it in 1913, a year after Frederick Soddy lectured on radioactivity in terms Wells could read as a layman, and he dedicated the book to Soddy’s work. Leo Szilard read it in 1932, the year before he conceived…

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Accession:FL-0464

Published:1914

Language:en

Shelved under:Politics, Science Fiction

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