...by HG Wells.
Well....having only ever seen the (Rod Steiger?) movie I wasn't sure how the book would be.
Hmmm....it seems to me to be only sort-of science fiction, and more the case that science fiction is being used to explore social and political ideas from the period. Most of the science, and story elements depending on it, occur early on; after that it seems to be an outworking of how social strata of the time might affect humanity long-term. With a bit of the end-of-the-universe tacked on (it did feel like a magazine serialisation, which indeed it was originally).
So, for me, it was OK.
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