The Tale of the Next Great War, 1871-1914: Fictions of Future Warfare and of Battles Still-To-ComeThis selection of short stories offers a return journey through the future as it used to be. Time speeds backwards to the 1870s to the alpha point of modern futuristic fiction the opening years of that enchanted period before the First World War when Jules Verne, H. G. Wells and many able writers delighted readers from Sydney to Seattle with their most original revelations of things to come. In all their anticipations, the dominant factor was the