Another thread that I'd like
Another thread that I'd like to see brought back from the dead.
A while back I bought a "phablet" and it has facilitated doing something my aging eyes had made difficult: reading on the bus. This first book I read on my device as H. G. Wells' The War In the Air, written in 1907. Very prescient of WWI, and obviously where many of the ideas fleshing out in The Shape of Things To Come started gestating. Also very steampunk in a "future that never was" kind of way. In fact the post-war dystopia of the book would be a great setting for some steampunk fiction. The shockingly casual racisim in the book is pretty amazing from a historical perspective, too.