The War in the Air
by H. G. Wells
This fascinating story is H. G. Wells' modernist, visionary best. In 1907, a naïve Londoner named Bert Smallweiss turned out to be an involuntary passenger of a fleet of German airships that crossed the Atlantic to attack New York. What characteristically unfolds in the Wellsian style is the collision of early flying machines that shackled Gotham and unleashed a terrible era of all-out war. Incredibly relevant to our own era, War in the Air remains the cornerstone of early science fiction.
