The third volume of this narrative history of scientific romance covers the period between two world wars, examining the legacy of the Great War of 1914-18 in terms of its effect on futuristic hopes and fears, as reflected in the works of such new recruits to the genre as Olaf Stapledon, John Gloag, Neil Bell J. Leslie Mitchell, S. Fowler Wright, Katharine Burdekin and Muriel Jaeger.