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Excerpt: What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells.

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Excerpt: War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells.

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Excerpt: A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells.

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Excerpt: Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells.

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