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Voices Prophesying War: Future Wars, 1793-3749 by Ignatius Frederick Clarke (Hardcover, 1992)

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Title: Voices Prophesying War: Future Wars, 1793-3749. Author: Ignatius Frederick Clarke.

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Since the appearance of the anonymous Reign of George VI in 1763, the fiction of future warfare has always enjoyed a wide readership. This is an updated edition of a comprehensive study of all brances of the genre, that takes the story right up to such current series as The Amtrack Wars . The Battle of Dorking (1871), which exposed Britain's unreadiness to repel the Prussians, established the invasion sub-genre; later enemies ranged from the Russians to the Martians. The industrial developments of the nineteenth-century inspired the likes of H.G. Wells and Conan Doyle (who were far ahead of the generals and the scientists) to write of proto-aeroplanes, submarines, and interplanetary war. The fears and themes of the Nuclear Age were reflected in Huxley's Ape and Essence and Neville Shute's On the Beach , while Farenheit 451 and Dune anticipate perils that might still lie ahead of us. Completing this survey is a checklist of all major future war fiction published in France and Germany as well as Britain and America, since the 18th century.