When Progress Becomes Peril: Technological Anxiety in H.G. Wells’ Fiction

From Martians to time machines, the English writer H.G. Wells turns the anxieties of his contemporaries about technology into haunting visions of humanity's downfall. In two of his novels, he adresses a very topical question: does scientifical progress mean an upgrade for humanity or does it erode human vitality?

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