之前的那个忘记添加附件了。。
是英文原版的。
我也不是很太懂。嘿嘿。希望有能欣赏的了的。
下边是有人翻译的一点内容简介，希望能给大家带来点帮助。。

反乌托邦/乌托邦原子启示录经典！威尔斯成功地预言了核能以及核连锁反应的概念。 “物理学家里奥·兹拉尔德于1932年读了该书，于1933年构思了核连锁反应的想法，1934年注册了专利。”威尔斯预感这种能量会被发现，并设想了在50年代的英国，清洁高效的原子能发动机会带来更美好的生活。唉，政府管理和教育没有跟上科学和技术的发展 - 机器人技术和计算机替代了人的劳动力 - 50年代末世界大战爆发，大城市毁灭......

THE WORLD SET FREE was written in 1913 and published early in
1914, and it is the latest of a series of three fantasias of possibility, stories
which all turn on the possible developments in the future of some
contemporary force or group of forces. The World Set Free was written
under the immediate shadow of the Great War. Every intelligent person
in the world felt that disaster was impending and knew no way of averting
it, but few of us realised in the earlier half of 1914 how near the crash was
to us. The reader will be amused to find that here it is put off until the year
1956……