Men Like Gods

Men Like Gods is a 1922 novel written by H. G. Wells. It features a utopian parallel universe.The hero of the novel, Mr. Barnstaple, is a depressive journalist in the newspaper The Liberal. At the beginning of the story, Mr. Barnstaple, as well as a few other Englishmen, are accidentally transported to the parallel world of Utopia. Utopia is like an advanced Earth, although it had been quite similar to Earth in the past in a period known to Utopians as the "Days of Confusion."Utopia has a socialist world government, advanced science, and even pathogens have been eliminated and predators are almost tamed.Barnstaple is confounded and confused by the utopian attitudes: "Where is your government?" he asks."Our government is in our education" is the answer.As the residents of Utopia begin to fall ill due to their weakened immune systems, echoing elements of The War of the Worlds, the visitors from our Earth are quarantined until a solution is found. They resent this isolation, and some of them begin to plot to take over Utopia...