A Modern Utopia / In the Days of the Comet / The War in the Air / The Sleeper Awakes [1910 - Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Awakes] / The World Set Free (Illustrated) - H. G. Wells: Notable Works

About the Series "H. G. Wells: Notable Works".Volume 1. (Annotated & Illustrated).- The Time Machine [1895]. - The Wonderful Visit [1895]. - The Island of Doctor Moreau [1896]. - The Invisible Man [1897]. - The War of the Worlds [1898]. (Illustrated by Henrique Alvim Corrêa, from the 1906 French edition).- Annotations: "An Appreciation of H. G. Wells", by Mary Austin, 1911.Volume 2 (Illustrated).- When the Sleeper Wakes [1899]. (Illustrated by Henri Lanos).- The First Men In The Moon [1901]. (Illustrated by Claude Allin Shepperson). - The Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine [1902]. (Illustrated by Lewis Christopher Edward Baumer). -The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth [1904].Volume 3 (Illustrated).A Modern Utopia (1905).In the Days of the Comet (1906).The War in the Air (1908). With Illustrations from the First Edition by A. C. Michael.The Sleeper Awakes (1910) - revised edition of When the Sleeper Wakes (1899).The World Set Free (1914).A Modern Utopia is a 1905 novel by H. G. Wells. Because of the complexity and sophistication of its narrative structure, A Modern Utopia has been called "not so much a modern as a postmodern utopia." The novel is best known for its notion that a voluntary order of nobility known as the Samurai could effectively rule a "kinetic and not static" world state so as to solve "the problem of combining progress with political stability".In the Days of the Comet (1906) is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells in which humanity is "exalted" when a comet causes "the nitrogen of the air, the old azote," to "change out of itself" and become "a respirable gas, differing indeed from oxygen, but helping and sustaining its action, a bath of strength and healing for nerve and brain." The result: "The great Change has come for evermore, happiness and beauty are our atmosphere, there is peace on earth and good will to all men."The War in the Air, a military science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, written in four months in 1907 and serialised and published in 1908 in The Pall Mall Magazine, is like many of Wells's works notable for its prophetic ideas, images, and concepts-in this case, the use of the aircraft for the purpose of warfare and the coming of World War I. The novel's hero is Bert Smallways, a "forward-thinking young man" and a "kind of bicycle engineer of the let's-'ave-a-look-at-it and enamel-chipping variety."The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian science fiction novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London in which he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realised, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities. The novel is a rewritten version of When the Sleeper Wakes, a story by Wells that was serialised between 1898 and 1899.The World Set Free is a novel written in 1913 and published in 1914 by H. G. Wells. The book is based on a prediction of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort of weapon than the world has yet seen. It had appeared first in serialised form with a different ending as A Prophetic Trilogy, consisting of three books: A Trap to Catch the Sun, The Last War in the World and The World Set Free.