By: H. G. Wells Publisher: Tor (Tom Doherty) Average Rating: Binding: Mass Market Paperback Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 125 Publication Date: December 15, 1992 Reading Level: Young Adult Studio: Tor (Tom Doherty)
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This edition of The Time Machine includes an Introduction, Biographical Note, and Afterword by James Gunn.
The time? 802,701 A.D.
The place? An Earth stranger than you can imagine.
The people? A pretty, childlike race, the Eloi-and their distant cousins, the Morlocks: disgusting, hairy creatures who live in caves and feed on the flesh of-what?
Enter the Time Traveller, who has hurtled almost a million years into the future. After the Morlocks steal his machine he may be trapped there...and at their mercy.
Time travel and politics ^ In my opinion, this book gets an "A" for originality. Most stories of time travel that I have read or watched on the big screen include super intelligent humans and fantastic technology. Not so in "The Time Machine." The two distinct races of humans in this book are simple and animalistic, or perhaps child-like. There is no incredibly advanced technology or even a grocery store to get the food, for goodness' sake. It's as if humanity reverted to the times of the Neanderthals. However, in the area of character development, Wells scores a "C" at best. None of the characters are terribly deep and I didn't find myself getting terribly attached to any of them -- few though they were. In storytelling, I think Wells did a nice job, as I was engaged in the narrative and enjoyed the description of places, things, and people. However, I was also vaguely aware of some kind of social commentary with the frequent references to the "upper class" and "working class," but I'm afraid this was lost on me, as I am not familiar with the culture of 1800s England. Overall, I give this book four stars.
Wells Was Far Ahead Of His Time! ^ This is a cool book from Wells. In it he takes a giant leap into the future, more precisely year A.D. 802701! This is an action packed novel, it's really quite amazing that it was first published all the way back in 1895! Because the action level is equivalent to a Dan Brown novel. Of course Wells is far better than Dan Brown, because Wells is not only action he is also vitamin! The novel ends with the words "in the heart of man". That end is kind of a signature for Wells' work, because he was really curious, and of course the curiousity was particular related to what a human can do? What a human is? What a human can become? What there is in the heart of man?
Thank You =) ^ Thank you, My nephew loves his book. It was fast shipping, and good price.
Great time travel ^ The Time Machine is one of those books I'd been meaning to read for years and finally got around to it this summer. I'm a sci-fi fan and enjoyed Wells's book, which was one of the first well known time travel stories ever written. It's a concise story without any unnecessary fluff, which makes it exciting all the way through.
Beautiful Cover! ^ This is not a book review.. rather a compliment on the beautiful cover art! Great job John and congrats!
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