Men Like Gods
by H.G. Wells
Original Title: Men Like Gods
Author: H.G. Wells
Genres: Fiction, Science-fiction, Dystopian
Publisher: Madness Serial Publishing
File version: 1.0
In the summer of 1921, a disenchanted journalist escapes the rat race for a drive in the country. But Mr Barnstaple's trip exceeds his expectations when he and other motorists are swept 3,000 years into the future. The inadvertent time travellers arrive in a world that corresponds exactly to Barnstaple's ideals: a utopian state, free of crime, poverty, war, disease, and bigotry.
Unfettered by the constraints of government and organized religion, the citizens lead rich, meaningful lives, passed in pursuit of their creative fancies. Barnstaple's travelling companions, however, quickly contrive a scheme to remake the utopia in the image of their twentieth-century world.
A century after its initial publication, H. G. Wells's Men Like Gods offers an enduringly relevant look at an ideal society. Conceived in the aftermath of World War I, it reflects the failings of human nature but offers hope for the future, when men and women may live like gods.
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