W. Warren Wagar was for many years a history professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton. A Vice President of the H. G. Wells Society, Wagar's works include H. G. Wells and the World State; an edited anthology, H. G. Wells: Journalism and Prophecy; a critical edition of Wells's The Open Conspiracy; and H. G. Wells: Traversing Time. Among his other books are The City of Man: Prophecies of a World Civilization in 20th-Century Thought and A Short History of the Future.