Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Jan Stanisławski, Ivan Aivazovsky and Carl Gustav Carus. Atomic energy is released in 1933, the cities go up in fire, and what survives has to build a government or die. Wells wrote it in 1913, coined the phrase atomic bomb in it, and got the chain reaction from a book by Soddy; Leo Szilard read the novel and said afterwards that it put the idea into his head. Sixty plates of moonlit seas, forges and mountain passes by painters including Sebastian Pether and Ivan Aivazovsky, gathered from a century of nocturnes to match the novel's dark arc.