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    The War in the Air
    The War in the Air
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    The War in the Air

    By H G Wells

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    The War in the Air, a novel by H. G. Wells written in four months in 1907 and serialised and published in 1908 in The Pall Mall Magazine, is like many of Wells's works notable for its prophetic ideas, images, and concepts—in this case, the use of the aircraft for the purpose of warfare and the coming of World War I. The novel's hero is Bert Smallways, a "forward-thinking young man" and a "kind of bicycle engineer of the let's-'ave-a-look-at-it and enamel-chipping variety." (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
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    PublisherOtbebookpublishing
    Release dateDec 27, 2015
    ISBN9783956767241
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    H G Wells

    H.G. Wells is considered by many to be the father of science fiction. He was the author of numerous classics such as The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The War of the Worlds, and many more. 

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    • 4/5
      Read this online. Intriguing and slightly odd that Wells chooses and is able to write this as a mix of small-time comedy and world catastrophe scenario. It sort of works, perhaps like Chaplin's Dictator or the film Life is Beautiful. Schweik is another. There are two perspectives though: the catastrophe is mostly seen from a distance in documentary style, sort I'd pseudo non-fiction/historical voice, while the innocent bumbler caught up in it is seen close up in anecdotal manner. The personal story is great fun whereas the world historical passages, though elegantly expressed don't really catch light and one is always comparing the prophesy to reality of the 20th century. As prophecy it does have quite a bit going for it. The great powers bumbling into war presages August 1914, 7 or 8 years after he wrote. Aerial bombardment, specifically carpet bombing, didn't get going till Guernica and WWII but his descriptions are convincing.the flu of 1918 can stand in for Wels' pestilence The regression to the Dark Ages hasn't happened yet but who knows? Less convincing is the idea that a mechanic with a stolen set of blueprints can overturn the power of scientific warmongering, though perhaps Vietnam is a case in point. Prescient amid this is the way populations go on resisting as the bombs rain down, London in the blitz, Germany 1945, as well as Vietnam have shown the truth of that.
    • 3/5
      This certainly isn't the best Wells novel: it takes a good while to get going and then mars a fascinating middle section with a very rushed and unsatisfactory ending, but then I don't read Wells for the narrative structure, I read for his ideas. H.G. Wells was an incredible ideas man, something he certainly demonstrates here. Written in 1907, this novel demonstrates remarkable foresight. While Wells (who was famously dismissive of the future of aviation) imagines fleets of airships rather than planes, the scenario he imagines does anticipate much of the history of the twentieth century with whole cities bombed out and urban civilians experiencing war in a much more immediate and devastating way than ever before. Wells' "hero" is Bert Smallways, a small-minded man from Bun Hill. An unlikely collision finds Bert trapped in a balloon gradually billowing towards Germany, a nation on the eve of war, with the plans for a remarkable flying machine suddenly in his possession. Like Bert's journey, the plot of this novel is frustratingly meandering in places but I generally enjoyed the contrast between Bert's haplessness and the deadly global arena of war in which he inadvertently finds himself. I'll admit it too, I loved the descriptions of the airships and all the various flying contraptions. However impractical there is something fascinating and majestic about airships and Wells captures that tone brilliantly here. There is a powerful and moving anti-war message running through the whole piece but I'm glad that the aftermath of the twentieth century's two world wars wasn't quite as bleak as the novel imagines. The novel feels dated now but if you're interested in twentieth-century history you may find this an interesting alternate imagining and yes, damn it, if you just like great big crazy steampunk airships you'll probably enjoy it too.
    • 3/5
      Wells presents a very gloomy and uncannily accurate picture of the horrors of modern aerial warfare in a novel written in 1908 at the very beginning of the history of mechanical flight. But the descriptions were too long, the plot too thin and the characters uninteresting. About three quarters of the way through, I stopped trying to plough my way through this morass into which an initially powerful idea had degenerated, though I did skim the final section which describes in stark post-apocalyptic terms the disintegration of society after the War in the Air. In sum, a novel whose promise was unfulfilled.
    • 2/5
      An amusing idea, but I don't think that this has aged particularly well. All too often it seemed ponderous, and a lot of the set pieces that may have seemed rather amusing at the time now seem merely predictable and puerile.
    • 4/5
      It's dated in style, but the chirpy Cockney narrator bumbling through the end of the world is a gimmick that works surprisingly well. The plot manages to be both ridiculous and yet believable enough to be extremely unnerving in time. If you ignore some of the racial prejudice, bits of this book are surprisingly pertinent; the dangers of technology and the problems disruption to society via a major conflict could cause are admirably explored in this novel.
    • 4/5
      Published in 1908, Wells dashed off this book in four months and yet it is a humdinger of a novel. It combines Well’s love of predicting the future, his increasingly jaundiced view of capitalism, his despair of humankind, a panoramic view of world events, with a good story. It is the story of a world war, and paranoia, leading to a dystopia that regresses civilisation back to that of the middle ages. In 1908 it could have sounded convincing. In the forward to the 1918 edition there is a preface that says that Wells’ vision of a war in the air might strike the reader as quaint or limited, this was because Wells’ aeroplanes bore little resemblance to those that were used in the First World War and they had not featured in anything like the extent that Wells envisioned, but in the Second World War their use was much more significant and today aerial power can be decisive, let us hope that Well’s dystopia does not lie ahead of us. Like many of Wells’ novels he focuses on a working class character in South London. Bert Smallways earns his living running a bicycle repair shop with his friend Grubb, they are struggling to survive in a world that is rapidly moving forward, new roads, new cars, electricity urban development are all raging ahead in an unbridled fashion. Bert’s father Tom whose grocer’s shop is now three steps down from the new walkway says “You’d hardly think it could keep on”. Bert has no scruples in how to get on in the world, it was a case of being smarter than the next man to get his hands on the money. Wells says of him that:“Bert Smallways was a vulgar little man….. He was in fact the sort of man who had made England and America what they were. He was a mere aggressive individual with no sense of State, no habitual loyalty, no devotion, no code of honour, no code not even of courage”Bert and Grubb abandon their cycling business to earn money busking at seaside resorts and it is on their first trip that they meet Butteridge the larger than life inventor of a new aeroplane who is struggling to control a hot air balloon. In the ensuing fracas Bert ends up alone inside the balloon that promptly takes off and carries him across the channel to Germany, where he manages to get himself down in the middle of a giant airfield. He is at first mistaken for Butteridge who was in the process of selling his blue print for the aeroplane to the Germans. It hardly seems to matter as the fleet of Giant German airships takes off with Bert on board to invade America and so start a world war. Bert witnesses the bombing and utter destruction of New York and the power of the German aeroplanes as they destroy shipping on the way. However the Germans do not have it all their own way because the Asiatics (Japan and China) enter the war with their own secretly built airforce and so the mighty conflagration starts. Wells says:"Mechanical invention had gone faster than intellectual and social organisation, and the world with it’s silly old flags, its silly unmeaning tradition of nationality, it’s cheap newspapers and cheaper passions and imperialisms, its base commercial motives and habitual insincerities and vulgarities, it’s race lies and conflicts, was taken by surprise. Once the war began there was no stopping it.”In 1907 when Wells was writing his novel it was not difficult to suggest that many nations had been secretly building up their airforces. There were many rumours of successful new flying machines, but there was a sort of hiatus while some inherent problems of making a heavier than air machine were cracked, however many people believed it would happen soon. Wells' secret stock piling reflects the rumours that were circulating about the building of ironclad ships which turned into an arms race.Bert in his vantage point of the German flagship ballon witnesses firsthand the horrors of modern warfare on the civilian population as well as the military. Wells destroys any lingering ideas concerning heroic action, this is a portrait of men going to certain death on the orders of a high command. Bert is used as a reporter of events, but when he lands in a devastated America and is cut adrift from the German military machine the story once again contracts around Bert’s world and we are back with his struggle for survival. Wells manages to contrast the macro with the micro not quite seamlessly but effectively none the less, giving his novel an added dimension. Everybody and most everything is criticised in Wells’ novel, at the time of writing he was actively campaigning for world peace and the world around him must have made him shudder. When witnessing the bombing of New York he says:“New York  -  Liberty on one hand, and on the other the base jealousy the individual self-seeker feels towards the common purpose of the state. The people were ardently against any native politician who did not say, threaten and do harsh and uncompromising things to antagonistic people.”Wells rounds off his novel with an epilogue including a fine story about ghosts from the past.Although written at breakneck speed I think Wells has pulled out of the fire a novel that is both thoughtful and insightful. He has gone for an adventure story which although stretches credibility, allows him to weave in a dire warning for the world he saw around the corner. No invasions from Mars this time, but man’s own self destruction. Wells on top form and a four star read.
    • 3/5
      I’m getting a lot of old books free for Kindle, and as I can read them in the dark while walking home from the local Starbucks, I’ll probably end up reviewing them. In The War In The Air. As usual, H. G. Wells provides an interesting mixture of technological prescience and political naiveté. Wells was a Socialist and a pacifist – nothing terribly wrong with either of those in 1908 when the book was published. The first third is set in the near future – perhaps around 1915 or so – and follows Bert Smallways, a Cockney bicycle repairman, in his life in a quiet London suburb, repairing the odd bike and romancing Edna. Technology has advanced to the point where there are numerous motor vehicles, trains have been replaced by monorails, there’s a bridge across the Channel, airships aren’t unusual, and there are a few heavier-than-air craft (although they are difficult to control).Things change when Smallways accidently finds himself alone in the basket of a balloon belonging to a Mr. Butteridge, and in possession of Butteridge’s plans for a flying machine that is controllable and maneuverable (to the extent it’s VTOL capable). Butteridge has attempted to sell these plans to both the British and German governments. Smallways drifts southeast and ends up in Germany, into a giant airship base where the Germans are preparing for a trans-Atlantic conquest of the United States. Initially mistaken for Butteridge (because he’s in possession of Butteridge’s balloon), Smallways is shanghaied on board the air fleet flagship Vaterland, where his status devolves from “honored guest” to “ballast” when it’s discovered he’s not Butteridge. The German air fleet sinks the entire US Atlantic Squadron, goes on to obliterate New York City, and sets up a base near Niagara Falls. In the meantime China and Japan have allied, created their own enormous air fleets, and simultaneously invade North America and Europe. The Asian invaders crush the Germans, but are defeated when Smallways escapes and gives the Butteridge plans to the President, who is hiding out in upstate New York. Smallways makes his way back to London and Edna, but the war, famine, and a pestilence called The Purple Death have destroyed civilization (Wells goes to considerable length explaining why money is now worthless). The novel ends with Smallway’s brother Tom reminiscing on “how things used to be” to his son.The technologically prescient parts are, of course, the potential dominance of air power in future wars. There’s a lengthy discussion of how air power will make the great navies obsolete, and how nations have spent fortunes on their navies for nothing, with the snark that those fortunes could have been used to benefit the poor. The politically prescient parts are also interesting; Wells predicts the ambitiousness of German power (probably not surprising); that the US fleet would defend the Panama Canal (which hadn’t been completed when the book was published); and the rise of Japan (including the seemingly anachronistic idea that every Japanese airman would carry a sword). It isn’t clear if The Purple Death is a biological weapon or just an opportunistic disease; Wells seems to blame it more on the breakdown of civilization than on weapons research.The main technological gaffes are egregiously overestimating the lift capacity, range and airworthiness of airships and underestimating their vulnerability – even future ones (ironically, one of the German airships is named Graf Zeppelin). The hypothetical German airships are able to carry a bomb load across the Atlantic sufficient to sink a major naval force and devastate New York City, and are amazingly fire-resistant (Well’s airship crews routinely put out fires in the hydrogen cells using fire extinguishers). Wells also decides that airships and aircraft will be so cheap that even minor national governments and independent groups (“air pirates”) will be able to afford them, and underestimates the infrastructure necessary to keep aircraft running. The supposed alliance of China and Japan and the sudden conversion of China from an agrarian nation to an industrial superpower is also contrary to the reality of Well’s time.Well’s politics, as mentioned, were always Socialist, and he takes a not-very-well hidden delight in the destruction of New York City, which he portrays as a sort of Capitalist Babylon (since there’s no Empire State Building to symbolically destroy yet, the Germans knock down the Brooklyn Bridge instead). Well’s antidote to all this – never explicitly set out but routinely hinted at – is a world Socialist government, with the particularly unsettling idea that such a government would necessarily control the press – to keep it from stirring up “the people” with war propaganda.Well, it all seemed like a good idea at the time. Nobody had ever tried anything like Socialism in 1908 (ironically, at the time the most socialist country in the world – it had health insurance, workers compensation, pensions, and a State-owned rail system – was Germany, and the German Socialists were almost unanimous in their support of World War I). Of course, there had never been a “Great War” – in the air or elsewhere – either. Worth reading, just like most of Wells, even if not as prophetic as Wells expected.
    • 4/5
      This was a surprisingly good novel by H.G Wells. It's full of action, excitement, adventure, and aircraft warfare! The characters are interesting too and the plot, setting, and thematic concepts that Wells explores were pleasing to me as a reader. Overall, I thought it was well worth reading and should prove interesting to those interested in classics, English literature, and early science fiction.3.5 stars.

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