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THE WAR IN THE AIR By: H.G. Wells
Penguin Classics
July 2007
On Sale: June 26, 2007
336 pages ISBN: 0141441305 EAN: 9780141441306 Paperback
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Science Fiction
This thrilling tale is H. G. Wells at his modernist, visionary best. In 1907, a naive Londoner named Bert Smallways finds himself an unwitting passenger on a fleet of German airships heading over the Atlantic to attack New York. What unfolds in characteristically Wellsian fashion is a clash of early flying machines that leaves Gotham in shambles and unleashes the terrible age of Total War. Uncannily relevant to our own era, The War in the Air remains a cornerstone of early science fiction.
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