Bison Frontiers of Imagination: The War in the Air (Paperback)

from vguy

Read this online. Intriguing and slightly odd that Wells chooses and is able to write this as a mix of small-time comedy and world catastrophe scenario. It sort of works, perhaps like Chaplin's Dictator or the film Life is Beautiful. Schweik is another. There are two perspectives though: the cata...

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This was a surprisingly good novel by H.G Wells. It's full of action, excitement, adventure, and aircraft warfare! The characters are interesting too and the plot, setting, and thematic concepts that Wells explores were pleasing to me as a reader. Overall, I thought it was well worth reading and ...

from baswood

Published in 1908, Wells dashed off this book in four months and yet it is a humdinger of a novel. It combines Well's love of predicting the future, his increasingly jaundiced view of capitalism, his despair of humankind, a panoramic view of world events, with a good story. It is the story of a w...

from john257hopper

Wells presents a very gloomy and uncannily accurate picture of the horrors of modern aerial warfare in a novel written in 1908 at the very beginning of the history of mechanical flight. But the descriptions were too long, the plot too thin and the characters uninteresting. About three quarters of...

from setnahkt

I'm getting a lot of old books free for Kindle, and as I can read them in the dark while walking home from the local Starbucks, I'll probably end up reviewing them. In The War In The Air. As usual, H. G. Wells provides an interesting mixture of technological prescience and political naiveté. Well...