Wells

When Holmes denigrates Dupin, Doyle acknowledges Poe. When Manse Everard meets a Victorian private investigator, Poul Anderson acknowledges Doyle. When a mutant time traveler gives the time travel idea to an English writer, Anderson acknowledges Wells.

This blog has referred to:

The Time Machine

The First Men In The Moon

The War Of The Worlds

The War In The Air

"The Land Ironclads"

The Shape Of Things To Come

Men Like Gods

The Invisible Man

"In The Abyss"

"The Plattner Story"

"The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes"

The Island Of Doctor Moreau

The World Set Free

Food Of The Gods

A Modern Utopia

In The Days Of The Comet

"A Story of the Stone Age"

"A Story of the Days to Come"

"A Dream of Armageddon"

"The Crystal Egg"

"The Star"

Star-Begotten

The Autocracy Of Mr Parham

"The New Accelerator"

 

Wells and Anderson each present a modern man surveying a future world and describing it in familiar terms. 

 

Looking down from a hill at the pastoral landscape of AD 802,701, the Time Traveler reflects:

"'Communism,' said I to myself."

-HG Wells, The Time Machine (London, 1973), 6, p. 35.

He means common possession of land and buildings.

 

Looking down from an aircar at the urban landscape of AD 2497, Barlow thinks:

 

"Obviously capitalism such as Barlow's America had known, with its inherent need to innovate, was extinct."

-"Welcome," p. 66.

Wells' 802,701 and Anderson's 2497 are very different but have something in common.