Journalism and Prophecy: An Anthology (1893-1946), by H. G. Wells, compiled and edited by W. Warren Wagar (HC, 1964, $3)
Well described himself as "a journalist", but he was much more than that. "He must also be numbered among the perceptive prophets of his time. A prophet sees the future, warns his contemporaries against its terrors, and urges them with passion into the ways they should go. From superhighways to atomic warfare, from the flight to the suburbs to the need for One World, Wells saw what was coming and offered his formulas for salvation to a world confronted by many of the same problems we know today.
This volume presents for the first time a large and characteristic selection from the more than 100 books written by Wells and from his hundreds of articles which have not appeared before in book form..."
Look for this book in the last shelf of the general non-fiction section, avail. 9/27.
