Classic H.G.Wells: The Time Machine (Paperback)

from JGolomb

The Time Machine is more than cool, classic sci-fi. It's more than just THE original story to include a scientific rationale to time travel. It's a story that delves into the differences and injustices of class relations. It's a story that considers a burgeoning scientific revolution. And it's a ...

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 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 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 Crazymamie

This book was originally published in 1895, and, pardon the pun, it stands the test of time. Although the writing style is one you will recognize if you have read anything by say, Henry Rider Haggard or Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first person narration of the story still is adequate enough to pull...