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by: H.G. Wells
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781580493802
ISBN: 1580493807
Label: Prestwick House, Inc.
Manufacturer: Prestwick House, Inc.
Number Of Pages: 118
Publication Date: 2006-01
Publisher: Prestwick House, Inc.
Sales Rank: 52890
Studio: Prestwick House, Inc.
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This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition of The Time Machine includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader contend with Wells’ vision of the future.
As he approached the turn of the twentieth century, H.G. Wells explored the implications of the rising tide of Socialism and Darwin’s theory of evolution to envision a future—800,000 years from his own day—in which suffering, death, and human labor seem to have been replaced by beauty, peace, and innocent play. What Wells’ unnamed Time Traveller ultimately comes to discover, however, are the horrific truths of a new Humanity, split and evolved into two separate races living in a false Paradise that actually fosters idiocy, weakness, and mortal terror.
Originally written in 1898, The Time Machine examines the age-old questions of humankind’s ultimate destiny and the role we play in shaping it.
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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. Some of the details are fascinating as the traveler come to discover the secret of the results of social striation over centuries which eventually creates two separate species from humans. Which species is the more human? Can anything be done to prevent or correct this?
I grew up on the Rod Taylor /George Pal movie. When I started the book I expected ... Read More
Rating: - THE GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION STORY OF ALL TIME
In science fiction, the gimmick or gadget that gives rise to the science part of the science fiction is the heart of the story.
The more ingenious the gadget, the more far reaching the consequences of its use, the more appeal the story necessarily has.
It is in this way that ten years before Einsteinian relativity and forty years before quantum mechanics that this wonderful writer managed such a coup to create a science fiction story that was so factual in its understanding ... Read More
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