The Time Machine: Om Illustrated Classics

By H.G. Wells

The Time Machine is one of the most influential science fictionnovels of all time. It is an adventure story documenting the TimeTraveller's travel into the future by a machine constructed by him.Once there, he discovered that society, as he knows it, has falleninto ruins. All that is left are remnants of crumbling buildings andovergrown vegetation. He comes in contact with two species insteadof modern humans. Much of the novel concerns the Time Traveller'shorrifying discovery of this divided world. It gradually becomesapparent that the novel is more than an adventure story; it is alsoa parable about the ultimate kind of society stratified by class, bythose who have and those who do not.The book is a work of great imagination that can be read andappreciated by fans of both Science Fiction and Non-Science Fiction.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9384225444
• ISBN13: 9789384225445
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Om Books International
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

I saw the movie first. The difference from the book was a surprise.

An unnamed time traveler sees the future of man (802,701 A.D.) and then the inevitable future of the world. He tells his tale in detail. Some of the details are fascinating as the traveler comes to discover the secret of the results of social stratification over centuries, which eventually creates two separate species of humans. Which species is more human? Can anything be done to prevent or correct this? I grew up on the Rod Taylor /George Pal movie. When I started the book, I expected it to be slightly different, with a tad more complexity than with most book/movie relationships. I was surprised to find the reason for the breakup of the species (Morlock and Eloi) was class Vs. atomic (in later movie versions it was political). I could live with that, but to find that some little pink thing replaced Yvette Mimieux was too much. After all the surprises, we can look at the story as unique in its time, first published in book form in 1895, yet the message is timeless. The writing and timing could not have been better. And the ending was certainly appropriate for the world that he describes. If the story were written today, the species division would be based on eugenics.