Mind at the End of Its Tether (1945) is
H. G. Wells' last book — only 34 pages long — which he wrote at the age of 78. In it, Wells considers the idea of humanity being soon replaced by some other, more advanced, species of being.[1] He bases this thought on his long interest in the
paleontological record. At the time of writing Wells had not yet heard of the
atomic bomb (but had predicted a form of it in his 1914 book The World Set Free).[2][3]
References
^Slusser, George Edgar;
Parrinder, Patrick;
Chatelain, Danièle (2001). H.G. Wells's perennial Time machine : selected essays from the Centenary Conference "The Time Machine: Past, Present, and Future", Imperial College, London, July 26–29, 1995. Athens: University of Georgia Press. p. 143.
ISBN0-8203-2290-3.