"A Story of the Days To Come" is a novella by H. G. Wells comprising five chapters first published in the June to October 1897 issues of The Pall Mall Magazine. It was later included in a 1899 collection of Wells's short stories, Tales of Space & Time. The chapter titles"The Cure for Love""The Vacant Country""The Ways of the City""Underneath""Bindon Intervenes"The novella depicts two lovers in a dystopian London of the 22nd century. They explore the implications of excessive urbanization, class warfare, & advances in the technology of medicine, communication, transportation & agriculture. Like "When the Sleeper Wakes", published in the same year, the stories extrapolate the trends Wells observed in nineteenth-century Victorian London two hundred years into the future.London of the early 22nd century is over 30 million people in population, with the lower classes living in subterranean dwellings, the middle & upper classes living in skyscrapers & largely communal accommodations. Moving walkways interconnect the city, with fast air-travel & superhighways available between cities. The countryside is largely abandoned.Many aspects of the world of these two stories will be instantly familiar to readers of the more popular Isaac Asimov's Robot series written 50 years later. Altho no apparent citation exists crediting Wells' world as the source for the Asimov stories' settings & culture, the parallels between the two are striking.
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H.G. Wells'in Gelecek Günlerin Hikayesi kitabının ilk bölümü "Aşkın tedavidi", öyle Yevgeniy Zamyatin'in Biz'i gibi ya da Cesur Yeni Dünya gibi de değil, gayet rahat ve enteresan, bakalım sonraki dört bölümü nasıl olacak :)
