So, the Time Traveller, the Medicine Man and the Psychologist get around a table and so are unfolded the unbelievable voyages the first one has lived so far. H. G. Wells is really capable of taking you some place else (and we all need people who have that capacity every once in a while, right?) and ...
Re-reading Wells's classic after many years, I'm struck by the "scientific" style, also used by Poe for his science fiction. The learned exposition about physics or the material world; the careful articulation by the protagonist of the limits of his expertise or possible lack of objectivity at times...
This struck me as unimpressive, which I know is completely unfair--it's that this is the one that created the mold and since 1895 we've had a bazillion time travel novels. I might feel very different if I was a contemporary of Wells reading this when published. This zipped past pretty quickly--it's ...
A brilliant inventor creates the world’s first time machine. After explaining its inner-workings to guests of his weekly dinner parties, he arranges for a follow up meeting about a week later. When the group convenes, they find the scientist exhausted and weathered. After cleaning up and consumin...
HG Wells' The Time Machine: Politics and Time Travel Mixed After reading The War of the Worlds over the summer (In my 'classic science fiction' phase), I knew I loved H.G. Wells', but it wasn't until I read 'The Time Machine' that I really realised how much. If you're not a fan of different futurist...
HG Wells' The Time Machine: Politics and Time Travel Mixed After reading The War of the Worlds over the summer (In my 'classic science fiction' phase), I knew I loved H.G. Wells', but it wasn't until I read 'The Time Machine' that I really realised how much. If you're not a fan of different futurist...
The Time Machine was the first SF book I've ever read, and I could only say that I loved it very much. I absolutely love the sophisticated writing of H.G.Wells--the skillful way he presents his ideas and how he manages to include so much details into his thoughts without overdoing it and confusing t...
I can understand why this book was groundbreaking - lots of interesting musings on the future of men, evolution and why we are how we are - but I found it a bit slow and boring, maybe because it was one person's narrative with very little conversation. Thankfully, it was a short book, otherwise I do...
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