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{{short description|Book by Herbert George Wells}}
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[[File:MindAtTheEndOfItsTether.jpg|thumb|First edition (publ. [[Heinemann (publisher)|Heinemann]])]]
'''''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.<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Slusser | first1 = George Edgar | author-link1 = George Edgar Slusser | first2 = Patrick | last2 = Parrinder | author-link2 = Patrick Parrinder | first3 = Danièle | last3 = Chatelain | author-link3 = Danièle Chatelain| title = 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 | publisher = University of Georgia Press | location = Athens | year = 2001 | isbn = 0-8203-2290-3 | page = 143}}</ref> 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]]'').<ref>{{cite book|last=Dyson|first=George|author-link=George Dyson (science historian)|title=Project Orion|publisher=Macmillan|year=2002|pages=10|isbn=978-0-8050-5985-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4S2KocYp8AkC&pg=PA10}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Parrinder|first=Patrick|author-link=Patrick Parrinder|title=H.G. Wells|publisher=Routledge|year=1997|pages=11|isbn=978-0-415-15910-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=73q85EPQwDQC&pg=PA11}}</ref>
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