Mind at the End of Its Tether explained

Mind at the End of Its Tether (1945) is H. G. Wells' last book — only 34 pages long — which he wrote at the age of 78. In it, Wells considers the idea of humanity being soon replaced by some other, more advanced, species of being.^[1] He bases this thought on his long interest in the paleontological record. At the time of writing Wells had not yet heard of the atomic bomb (but had predicted a form of it in his 1914 book The World Set Free).^{[2] [3]}

Notes and References

1. Book: Slusser . George Edgar . George Edgar Slusser . Patrick . Parrinder . Patrick Parrinder . Danièle . Chatelain . Danièle Chatelain. H.G. Wells's perennial Time machine : selected essays from the Centenary Conference "The Time Machine: Past, Present, and Future", Imperial College, London, July 26–29, 1995 . University of Georgia Press . Athens . 2001 . 0-8203-2290-3 . 143.
2. Book: Dyson, George. George Dyson (science historian). Project Orion. Macmillan. 2002. 10. 978-0-8050-5985-4.
3. Book: Parrinder, Patrick. Patrick Parrinder. H.G. Wells. Routledge. 1997. 11. 978-0-415-15910-4.