What is The World Set Free?
{{italic title}} '''''The World Set Free''''' is a 1913 [[science fiction]] [[novel]] by [[H. G. Wells]]. It was published in 1914. The book is based on a prediction of a more destructive [[weapon]] than the [[world]] has yet seen. It had appeared first in [[Serial (publishing)|serialised]] form with a different ending as ''A Prophetic Trilogy. That form'' was made up of three books: ''A Trap to Catch the Sun'', ''The Last War in the World'' and ''The World Set Free''. The novel tells the story of man’ using the (at that time) newly-discovered power of the [[atom]]. It tells how this power almost destroys [[Civilization|civilisation]] in a war. In a sense, the book seems to have ended up being a self-fulfilling [[prophecy]]. ''The World Set Free'' is an example of how [[science]] and science fiction can work together and build upon each other. {{Lit-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:World Set Free, The}} [[category:1914 books]] [[category:science fiction books]] [[category:books by H. G. Wells]]