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Six SFF Visions of Governing the Future

By John Folk-Williams

Infomocracy Governing the Future

There have been an abundance of SFF novels depicting dystopian conditions coming in the next century but relatively few that have offered a vision of governing the future. What would it be like to live amid the surviving or transformed structures of a different world? Would ordinary people have any say or freedom? Here are […]

Filed Under: Favorite SFF Tagged With: agency, Becky Chambers, Failed State, governing the future, H.G. Wells, Infomocracy, Malka Older, society, William Gibson

H.G. Wells’ Things to Come – the 1936 Film

By John Folk-Williams

H. G. Wells Things to Come

H. G. Wells wrote the screen adaptation of his future history, The Shape of Things to Come, to give a dramatic setting to his sweeping vision of a world first devastated by war then resurrected by a corps of brilliant engineers. The result was Things to Come, a 1936 film produced by Alexander Korda and […]

Filed Under: Post-Apocalytic, Scifi TV/Movies, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: city, civilization, dystopia, future history, H.G. Wells, space travel, technology, Things to Come

The Shape of Things to Come by H.G. Wells

By John Folk-Williams

The Shape of Things to Come by H.G. Wells

On with Vintage Science Fiction Month! H.G. Wells’ The Shape of Things to Come (1933) purports to be the “dreamed” history of the next hundred and fifty years of human experience. Be warned: it’s serious future fictional history without a character or action-driven plot, though there are a few strong personalities who take the spotlight […]

Filed Under: Post-Apocalytic, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: dictatorship, economy, future history, H.G. Wells, hopeful future, individuality, information, nationalism, plague, religion, world collapse

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