The Books That Forecast About the Future

From the Earth to the Moon:

An 1865 novel by Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon, was a science fiction that described space exploration for the first time.

The novel tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons aficionados, and their attempts to develop a great sky-facing Columbiad space gun and launch three people—the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet  in a projectile with the goal of a moon landing.

Jules Verne’s work was also notable for his attempt to do some rough calculations of the requirements for the cannon.

However, considering the comparative lack of any data on the subject at the time, some of his figures are surprisingly close to reality.

The World Set Free:

Written in 1914 amidst the anxiety-ridden wake of the Great War, H.G. Wells’ "The World Set Free" outlined the possibility of atomic weapons almost 100 years before they were invented, and then dropped.

 Though the power of radioactivity was no secret at the time, Wells was the one to foresee the destructive usage and effects of atomic bombs.

Here is an Excerpt from the book, “The amount of energy that men were able to command was continually increasing. Applied to warfare that meant that the power to inflict a blow, the power to destroy, was continually increasing ... Before the last war began it was a matter of common knowledge that a man could carry about in a handbag an amount of latent energy sufficient to wreck half a city.”

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