The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780553897432 (0553897438)
Publish date: April 29th 2003
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Time Travel,
Dystopia
2.5 Stars, mainly for the War of the Worlds.The Time MachineA time traveller manages to forward hundreds and thousands of years into the future.Wells describes how the human race has evolved into a pampered, indolent elite and the menials who perform all the necessary tasks for them.None of the char...
I absolutely loved reading the genius and literary art of H.G. Wells. He was very creative and imaginative pioneering the future of both the time machine and attacks from another planet.
If you're going to read either of these two books, get this edition. It has a really nifty introduction by Isaac Asimov that details the history of science fiction and H.G. Wells's enormous contribution thereto. Ha, I just used "thereto."