A history of the future: prophets of progress from H. G. Wells to Isaac Asimov: by Peter J. Bowler, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017, x + 287 pp., 9 colour plts, 18 black and white plts, £19.99, ISBN 978-1-316-60262-1 [Book Review]

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