Appearance
The time machine,: An invention,
Honestly speaking, I did not expect much out of this novel, and I thought it was going to be a B-rate science fiction story. I am delighted to say I was dead wrong.This book deals not only with the issue of time travel, but also of some uncanny predictions of future society, social stratification, futility of human achievement against the cogworks of time, and of human compassion. I was unable to put the book down to the end, and was filled with delight at the excellent story-telling skill of Wells.It is one of my most favorite books now.
The time machine,: An invention,
The Time traveler is a man who looks for the chance to travel in time and with the help of a unique machine made of specific materials and a little support from his confidants he realizes this dream he has but when he does so he puts himslef in a situation where he's between a rock and a hard place.....this book is a good book to read at work, school, home anywhere just find the time.
The time machine,: An invention,
Through several awful cinematic translations and countless badly executed literary extensions, HG Wells' great Science Fiction novel THE TIME MACHINE remains to this day a hallmark of the genre, untarnished by the later travesties committed in his name. Written in clear, illustrative and beguilingly gorgeous prose, Wells manages to paint a truly timeless and ultimately unforgettable portrait of the future that has well stood the test of time. There are problems with the novel - at times Wells seems impatient with necessary narrative elements and in a rush to get on with the greater issues at hand - but there is hardly anything better than his beautifully understated observations on man and his future in the entire canon of English literature.Not just a greatly visualized and highly original piece of Science Fiction, Wells' novel remains timely in this day in age by tackling the disturbing question of man's ultimate fate in light of Charles Dawin's then revolutionary ideas as presented in THE ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES. Though typically we think of evolution as being linear, and POSITIVELY linear at that, in THE TIME MACHINE Wells addresses his anxiety that evolution may not always result in the positive progression of a species, but may, in fact, present just the opposite possibility - an eventual de-evolution, which Wells foresaw as the unavoidable social future of man, resultant of the extremely striated class structure and sociology of his times. Social politics aside, such is a piquant concept, and an enduring one that man still grapples with today, making this grandfather of Science Fiction worth another look.
The time machine,: An invention,
This book was very interesting and fun to read, however I felt that the plot was summerised too much. I enjoyed the plot because it was interesting to realize slowly but surely how life was in the far future. It was also interesting how the narrotor talked about the many people in his life by their profession for example: the medicine man, the Lawyer, and the Time Traveler.I would recommend this book to childeren bettween the ages of 8-12 that enjoy science fiction books.
The time machine,: An invention,
When the Time Traveler and his Time Machine go forward in time, no one really knows what to think. In his travels, he sees everything from four-foot tall men to the concavity that comes from seeing the absence of life. His most incredible travel is his travel to the year 8??? AD, where what he sees more resembles the past than the future.I rather enjoyed this book; it always seemed to keep me on edge. I would recommend this book to any fans of the sci-fi genre that enjoy tales of fantasy and adventure.
The time machine,: An invention,
A Victorian inventor uses the time machine that he has created to visit the far future, where the class divisions of his time have caused the human race to develop into two distinct species. The working class has developed into the Morlocks, who have become physically repulsive creatures of the night yet retain some knowledge of technology. The aristocrats have become the Eloi, attractive yet utterly useless, living like sheep. Without the constraints of economics to protect the elite class, the Morlocks have begun to feed on them literally, just as the upper-class could have been said to feed on the workers figuratively during the Victorian Era. Besides such social commentary, Wells also treats us to a haunting glimpse of the Earth at the end of time, where great crab-like creatures scuttle beside a drying sea under a dying sun. Superior to the vast majority of the time travel sub-genre that this novel spawned.