People Like Gods

«People Like Gods» – a philosophical novel about the meeting of imperfect humanity with utopia. The heroes find themselves in a parallel world where science has conquered need, wars and social inequality, and reason has become the highest value. But the ideal society turns out to be not only an object of admiration, but also a challenge: are people capable of accepting a world without fear, violence, and power? Wells poses an uncomfortable question – is humanity too imperfect for its own paradise.

The novel «When the Sleeper Wakes» complements this book with a dark and disturbing vision of the future. The awakening of a 19th-century man in the world of the coming centuries turns into the discovery of a society where technological progress coexists with a brutal social hierarchy. It is a story about power, manipulation, and the price that humanity pays for the illusion of order.

Herbert Wells – one of the founders of science fiction and a writer for whom the future has always been a way to talk about the present. His novels are bold intellectual experiments, where scientific hypothesis becomes a reason for a conversation about power, society, and human nature.