Fun look at the rapid passing of time into a odd future. Great read!
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Truly, a fantastic piece of science fiction! Once you start reading it you won't want to stop. Wells prose flows so smoothly and the pacing of the story keeps you gripped the whole time.
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Very good book every member of house enjoyed.
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travel 800,000+ yrs in to the future and back. This book is the story of a nineteen century time traveler who travels some 800,000 odd yrs into the future and contrary to his expectations of a progressive civilization he notices one in its decadency, i.e. in the "twilight of humanity". Humanity, he notices, has evolved into two distinct races; one that lives an idyllic, vegetarian, carefree life and appeared to him as unintelligent...
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This is an excellent critical edition of the initial edition of the Time Machine by Leon Stover. Most reprints of the Time Machine and other of Wells' SF novels typically use later revisions. Stover argues effectively for the greater artistic merit of the initial editions. It is part of a series of extensively annotated editions of Wells' science fiction. The editor also has a lengthy introduction which discusses the context...
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A hundred years ago, novelist H.G. Wells predicted that science would be "king of the world." Titanic's Jack Dawson may take issue with that claim, but he’d have a tough time disputing the compelling influence Wells had on politics, society, and the future that extended far beyond the literary realm. Considering Wells is one the founding fathers of sci-fi (along with Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs) and the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible man, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and The War of the Worlds, that's saying something.