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THE ATHENAEUMWar of the WorldsH. G. Wells

The Time Laboratory

War of the Worlds

Wells uses the future as a laboratory for the present. The machinery is memorable, but the real experiment concerns power, class, war, and what people choose to become.
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Edition: Project Gutenberg, eBook #26290. In the public domain in the United States.

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