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Title: The Last War: A World Set Free by H. G. Wells, Greg Bear ISBN: 0-8032-9820-X Publisher: Bison Bks Corp Pub. Date: January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: The War To End All War
Comment: "The Last War" is a novel by H.G. Wells which chronicles the end of civilization by atomic weapons. Like the alien invader theme (also pioneered by Wells), this premise has been used to death in countless books and films and reduced to cliche, but in 1914, when the novel was first published, the idea was completely new. Thirty-one years before Hiroshima and Nagasaki, H.G. Wells wrote the first novel about the effects of nuclear war.
This edition of "The Last War" contains an informative introduction by Greg Bear, describing the social conditions that led to the book's publication, and a lot of background information about Wells himself.
It could be said that "The Last War" is one of the only books where nuclear war proves to be a positive experience. Society is swept away, purged by fire, and a new civilization rises from the ashes of the old. This all happens in a relatively short time. Wells would use this theme again in "The Shape of Things To Come" (1933).
"The Last War" is notable for its prophetic qualities (never mind that the atomic bombs are thrown by hand), but in parts the book can be rather dry. The story doesn't move at the same pace as "The War of the Worlds" or "The Time Machine", for example. Since the end of World War Two and the beginning of the Cold War, the glut of post-nuclear scenarios that followed have been more willing to portray the full horror that such a conflict would bring. In "The Last War" there is a feeling of detatchment, the sense one gets from reading a history book. The book deals more with events than characters.
In summing up, H.G. Wells had no idea he was starting a genre that would become popular for years to come. The post-nuclear world is a place many writers have liked to visit and describe in detail. Wells saw it first.
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Title: The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, Dave Duncan ISBN: 0803298315 Publisher: Bison Bks Corp Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Sleeper Awakes by H. G. Wells, J. Gregory Keyes, Gareth Davies-Morris ISBN: 0803298188 Publisher: Bison Bks Corp Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Tales of Wonder (Bison Frontiers of Imagination Series) by Mark Twain, David Ketterer ISBN: 0803294522 Publisher: Bison Bks Corp Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Gullivar of Mars (Bison Frontiers of Imagination Series) by Edwin Lester Linden Arnold, Thomas Floyd, Richard A. Lupoff, Gary Hoppenstand ISBN: 0803259425 Publisher: Bison Bks Corp Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Ralph 124C 41+: A Romance of the Year 2660 by Hugo Gernsback, Jack Williamson, Frank R. Paul ISBN: 0803270984 Publisher: Bison Bks Corp Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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