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by: H.G. Wells
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9780375761188
ISBN: 0375761187
Label: Modern Library
Manufacturer: Modern Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 136
Publication Date: November 12, 2002
Publisher: Modern Library
Release Date: November 12, 2002
Sales Rank: 922943
Studio: Modern Library
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When the intrepid Time Traveller finds himself in the year 802,701, he encounters a seemingly utopian society of evolved human beings but then unearths the dark secret that sets mankind on course toward its inevitable destruction. An insightful look into a distant, bleak, and disturbing future, The Time Machine goes beyond the reaches of science fiction to provide a strikingly relevant discussion of social progress, class struggle, and the human condition.
Hailed as a masterpiece of its genre, H. G. Wells’s famous novella about the perils of history and the hubris of modernity comes vividly alive in this remarkable reissue of a unique 1931 illustrated edition.
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Rating:  - The quickest route to the mind of Wells
H G Wells was definitely one of the top humanists and futurists of his time, and this is his testament and his endgame on the human race. Some may find his thoughts encouraging, others disturbing, but at least for his fiction he will always make one think about the potential of man. He wrote many other Utopian thoughts in pretty thick texts, but this one is the shortest and therefore the sweetest.
It is amazing how this time machine concept is ubiquitous through many other sci-fi literature, ... Read More
Rating: - I saw the movie first. The book difference was a surprise
An unnamed time traveler sees the future of man (802,701 A.D.) and then the inevitable future of the world. He tells his tale in detail.
I grew up on the Rod Taylor /George Pal movie. When I started the book I expected it to be slightly different with a tad more complexity as with most book/movie relationships. I was surprised to find the reason for the breakup of species (Morlock and Eloi) was class Vs atomic (in later movie versions it was political). I could live with that but to find that ... Read More
Rating: - Important novel historically but now dull reading
After 40 years and half a lifetime of being a sci-fi fan I finally got around to reading War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. I'd read a couple of Wells's other books that are less known, such as In the Days of the Comet, a very slow-paced novel without much action compared to the above two in which the earth becomes a peaceful Utopia after passing through the strange gases of a comet's tail. But I had never read his two greatest masterpieces. After I saw the recent Spielberg remake of War of the Worlds, ... Read More
Rating: - Even Better Than "War of the Worlds"
H.G. Wells had a knack for turning the Victorian worldview upside down. In "The War of the Worlds," Martian invaders assault imperial Britain and slaughter the inhabitants like bushmen in the Kalahari desert. In "The Time Machine," Wells sketched a world where capitalist social relations have led to grotesque evolutionary changes. Both books are throught-provoking and superbly written. They belong to the science fiction canon.
"The Time Machine" tells the story of a Londoner of 1895 who travels ... Read More
Rating:  - The Time Machine
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The novel I am reading is the Time Machine and it is about a psychologist who wants to travel through the future.He had a machine that was used to travel through the future. He called it the Time Machine and it was made up of crystal, nickel and part of ivory. it also included two levers to control the Time Machine. When he first travelled through the future he saw gigantic buildings and big trees. He also saw things that were different from where he come from. With the Time Machine, he can ... Read More
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