THE WAR IN THE AIR
by H.G. Wells, 1907.
Among the lesser-known books of early science fiction pioneer H.G. Wells, was one of the first novels about the use of aircraft as instruments of war.. He wrote in 1907, seven years before the outbreak of World War I, and well before military theorists started thinking about the potentialities of fighter, bomber and ground-attack aircraft. As with so much good science fiction, Wells’ forecasts were eerily prescient in their broad scope but differed considerably in the details as the history of WWI later played out in the air.
