Abstract
In this article I.F. Clarke turns from his current series on American anticipations in order to contribute a thesis for this issue: that futuristic literature is in origin the creation of many original thinkers in France and the UK. As every British schoolboy knows, our relationship with the French began on the morning of October 14th 1066, when the mailed knights of William the Claimant, as he then called himself, advanced on the shield wall of the last Saxon king at Senlac near Hastings. The Norman-French victory was a triumph of foresight and military planning. However, the leader who entered British history as William the Conqueror could never have foreseen the most important consequence of his victory: the merging of Norman-French and Anglo-Saxon which would create the most flexible and effective means of modern communication—the English language.
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