ABSTRACT
FUTURE WAR STORIES PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1914 and 1945 should not be judged on the basis of the accuracy of their predictions. Rather they need to be studied as a window into the fears, hopes, aspirations, and beliefs of the era. Since Science Fiction stories tend to draw on both history and contemporary events for plot devices and technological concepts, conventional wisdom suggests that the birth of the nuclear age and the advent of the Cold War, with its continued political tensions and fears of a World War III, would provide a fertile ground for transforming the Future War genre. 1
