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IIRC Wells was drawing comparisons between what happened to indigenous populations when they encountered European colonial powers, except that he turned the tables and had the conquerors wiped out by viruses, rather than the conquered (having previously turned the tables on the British Empire by having it conquered in a matter of days by alien invaders wielding superior technology).
Fantastic book. I'd love it if someone did a faithful, big budget film adaptation rather than yet again setting it in the modern day US.
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