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His work and essays popularising the new understanding of radioactivity was the main inspiration for H. G. Wells's The World Set Free ( 1914 ), which features atomic bombs dropped from biplanes in a war set many years in the future.

Wells's novel is also known as The Last War and imagines a peaceful world emerging from the chaos.

In Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt Soddy praises Wells ’ s The World Set Free.

He also says that radioactive processes probably power the stars.