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The Shape of Things to Come provides this 'history of the future', an account that was in some ways remarkably prescient - predicting climatic disaster and sweeping cultural changes, including a Second World War, the rise of chemical warfare, and political instabilities in the Middle East.
Summaries. Some time in the future, man has set up colonies on the Moon, when Earth becomes uninhabitable. A madman decides to destroy the Moon colonies with his robots and automated ships, and only three people and their robot can stop him. Earth's a devastated wasteland, and what's left of humanity has colonised the Moon in domed cities.
Things to Come (also known as Shape of Things to Come and in promotional material as H. G. Wells' Things to Come) is a 1936 British science fiction film produced by Alexander Korda, directed by William Cameron Menzies, and written by H. G. Wells.
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Apr 25, 2006 · by H. G. Wells (Author), John Clute (Introduction) 4.2 208 ratings. See all formats and editions. The Shape of Things to Come tells of an intellectual who dies and leaves behind a "dream book" inspired by visions that are remarkably prescient.
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"There's a lot about the past. With all sorts of things I didn't know and all sorts of gaps filled in. Extraordinary things about North India and Central Asia, for instance. And also—it goes on. It's going on. It keeps on going on." "Going on?" "Right past the present time." "Sailing away into the future?" "Yes." "Is it—is it a PAPER book?"
The Shape of Things to Come (1979) Movie Info Synopsis After a nuclear holocaust, humans fight a dictator (Jack Palance) who has taken control of a radiation-fighting drug they need to survive.
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The Shape of Things to Come provides this 'history of the future', an account that was in some ways remarkably prescient - predicting climatic disaster and sweeping cultural changes, including a Second World War, the rise of chemical warfare, and political instabilities in the Middle East.
