Maquina Del Tiempo/the Time Machine

from Alera

The Time Machine is a short novella detailing the journey of a man who found a way to travel along the 4th dimension. It's a story about the evolution of humankind. And a story about the end of time. But more than all of that with The Time Machine, H. G. Wells managed to redefine what a science f...

from ctpress

This visionary and imaginative story held me in suspense from page one. A gloomy and dystopian view of the future. Forget 1984 or 2000-whatever. Here we are in the future with a capital F. In the year 802,700 - and later in the novel in the words of Buzz Lightyear: To infinity and beyond. I kept ...

from baswood

Although H G Well was not the first novelist to explore the paradox of time travel (Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court had been published nine years earlier) it was the among the first to be centred on the mechanics of time travel and the invention of a time machine. It was ...

from phaga

I loved Wells' vision of the future of humanity. Looking at society today it's easy to see how Wells came to his conclusions. This book seems even more relevant today, and I think Wells knew that. He knew we would continue our quest for contentedness and thus wrote a book that will remain timeles...

from Stormrose

2/20 (a shorter book) Surprisingly, given that I am an avid science fiction fan, I've never read Wells; and all I can say for having read him for the first time: I want to read more. Wells' technique is quite brilliant; his imagination is vivid; and you can see his ideas on humanity leaking out f...