The Time Machine Timeless Classics

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.

Although I received the right edition of the book, the condition was incorrect. It was meant to be “very good” but the book I received was fair at best. Extensive damage to the cover, it’s been written on with sharpie in multiple times, and appears to be an ex-library book which was not indicated before purchase. This is extremely disappointing.

Fun look at the rapid passing of time into a odd future. Great read!

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.

Very good book every member of house enjoyed.

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 and androgynous (evolved from the aristocratic class of his times), and a subterranean race that preys on the former (evolved from the working class). In some sense, what the time traveler notices is already here; you can see it coming to play in certain prosperous regions of the world with decadency setting in; or, perhaps, the morlocks are going to be the machines that increasingly control our lives, (the GPS in our car and the like) without which we are starting to lose our bearings even in our own neighborhood. The copy I have is the Simon and Schuster one which has certain helpful notes and interpretations towards the end.