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Wells departs from the traditional fiction role to pursue something truly unique and untested in attempts at the science fiction genre of his time. He diverts from the magic of Jules Verne, embarking on a new realm, on his own journey. Where Verne's interests lie in maritime stories of a more mundane nature, as fantastic as these were, we see Wells far more interested in what becomes of a people, of civilization, of earth. We see a writer who looks deeply into the human psyche, wondering how we perceive the passage of time.
Ok, so the book starts out straight enough, with four blokes discussing how such a machine could work. He convinces us that a unique perspective will reshape the cutting edge. They are blown away when the ostensible time traveler returns in only moments, having indicated that he spent days in this futuristic world of the haves and have-nots, of the Morlocks and the Eloi. When one of these delicate creatures dies, he learned, the others let it go as part of their every day events. Of course, when the traveler is battle-scarred, made weary of his adventures and tired of the vegetarian diet the Eloi provided him, his colleagues are not convinced but confused. Then, during the events of the new moon, when all is bleak outside, do these Morlocks attack the Eloi. He faces a terrifying sequence. Then he discovers his time machine had vanished from where he left it when he arrived. Let's not give the plot away now. Find out how he gets it back, and how he relates these things to his friends who await his return. It turns out that the Morlocks are highly developed individuals, having abandoned their mechanized world long ago, choosing to "harvest" the Eloi like cattle, allowing them to graze on the vegetation.
Wells is brilliant the way he orchestrates this tale, pitting one aspect of society against the other, making you wonder about how things could end up that way even from our modern perspective. Wells is, no doubt, years and years ahead of his time. Although it's easy enough for a high school student to read, the depth will make you return to his intense literary style again and again. I did.
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From the beginning of time the human race has always had a special concern for the future. What lay in store and what will become of life here on Earth? What will happen to the Earth after it endures horrific natural disasters? Thousands of years later we as a civilization still worry about the future and how we will get through it. In The Time Machine by H.G. Wells we read about the fascinating journey of a single man hundreds of thousands of years into the future using a machine that he spend countless times working to perfect. It is when he travels 800,000 years into the future that he truly is shown what will happen to the human race.
After having read War of the Worlds, I am convinced H.G. Wells is a brilliant author, and in his book The Time Machine he expresses his thoughts and his opinions on what will happen to the Earth after an apparent "Doomsday." He avoids any possible time paradoxes that may occur from interfering with time. The only problem that I had with the book was how he went so far into the future of the Earth (800,000 years) and humans still existed, which can be questionable if a species can survive for that amount of time. Wells then uses his amazing logical thinking skills to write a novel based solely on this single concept.
The Time Machine is an excellent book, that, as a child, I did not fully understand. When I was younger, I truly did believe that the concept of time travel was possible and that I was just too young to know about it. I very much desired to travel into the future to see what I would be doing at an older age and how I would look. Now that I am old enough to genuinely understand the book I still hold on to those same desires, although they have been slightly altered as I now recognize time travel to not be quite as easy as I thought. I am also surprised by how many of the people commenting on the book saw the movie first. Also, in response to Akachei's comment, I think that Wells did a fine job of comparing the two classes, because in the present time this scenario may not seem practical, but 800,000 years into the future, this could be life.
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I first read "The Time Machine" when I was in high school and that was some time ago. Since then, I've read it two or three more times. After an absence, I always seem to find it refreshing.
Set at the end of end of the nineteenth century, the time traveller has indeed found the answer to travelling in the fourth dimension. He attempts to explain this to some of his friends but with mixed fortune. Some are quizzical, others just think him to be a polite fraud. How wrong they are! The time traveller has truly mastered time. He travels some eight hundred thousand years into the future where the world is inhabited by two races of beings. The Eloi who are near human but very small and weak; and the Morlocks who are a conniving subterranean people. The Eloi are a frivolous people. They have no industry, no desire to learn. They seem only interested in light hearted play. By way of contrast, the Morlocks are strong and dangerous. They are nocturnal and spend their days below the earth's surface. Their obvious challenge to the Eloi is that they are predators. The Eloi live in fear of the night.
The time traveller does his best to help the Eloi and upon his return to Victorian England, he regales his dinner guests with a long narrative about the future. Failing to gain their credulous support, the time traveller goes away once more. On this occasion, however, he never returns. One is left speculating as to what becomes of him.
In many respects, H.G. Wells is presenting a vision of a dystopia. He does this beautifully. The reader should be entranced by the story. It is truly a modern classic.
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I'm surprised I didn't read this book sooner. I've been a big fan of sci-fi since I was a child, and this book was right up my alley. I absolutely loved Wells' writing style, and the story was such a vastly different take on time traveling compared to most stories that we see that involve the same concept. I liked the fact that he went thousands of years into the future, as opposed to just a hundred or so. This was a very lovely little novella, and I'm definitely going to have to pick up more H.G.Wells in the future.
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Thanks for a quick and easy transaction and for shipping it out so fast! The book was in wonderful shape, too.
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