The Time Machine - H. G. Wells

The Time Machine is a classic fantasy novella by HG Wells and was first published in 1895. The book concerns the adventures of the 'Time Traveller', a brilliant and slightly eccentric Victorian gentleman and inventor who we first learn about from a narrator in the story. The narrator is one of the Time Traveller's weekly invited dinner companions and the book begins amidst the cosy and beautifully atmospheric Victorian bric-a-brack of the era with these distinguished guests sniffing rather dubiously at his claims to have identified time as a fourth dimension and invented a machine for the purposes of travelling through it. 'THE TIME TRAVELLER (for so it will be ...  Read the complete review

First published in 1895, ‘The Time Machine’ is the first in H. G. Wells’ impressively consistent bibliography, followed a year later by the equally (or perhaps more) famous ‘War of the Worlds.’ Time-travelling DeLorians and all Star Trek episodes where the characters wind up in the late 20th century and have hilarious mishaps (ha ha) owe their existence to Wells’ innovative sledge. ‘The Time Machine’ is one of the first truly extrapolative science fiction stories, meaning that its science and predictions are based on futuristic estimates of current trends, and are plausible to some degree (as opposed to Swift’s fairies and things). Wells bases his anonymous ...  Read the complete review

One of the novels which, it can justifiably be said, created science fiction as we know it today, The Time Machine, published in 1895, still stands as an absolutely superb treatment of what would later become one of the staples of the genre: time travel. Most of the book is written in the form of a narration by the Time Traveller, telling first of his journey to the far-future Earth (year 802,701AD, to be precise) and of his encounters there with the somewhat effeminate Eloi (including the young Weena) and the more brutish Morlocks, who live an underground existence and surface only at night to prey upon any hapless Eloi they can find, and then his journey even ...  Read the complete review

Overview Victorian scientist invents time machine, goes 200,000 years into the future, has some adventures, comes back tells friends about it. Simple as that. Considering how complicated some modern tales of time travel get, the original does it with simplicity and suprising brevity coming in at just over 100 pages. Review I am now well aquainted with H.G Wells's writing style having read his main five science fiction novels in quick-succession. And 'quick' is right for none are much over a hundred pages long. More 'novellas' really or novellettes, I lack fim details on the distinctions. And what I have found is this. Wells is not a natural writer. ...  Read the complete review

The Time Machine. ================ Author - H.G.Wells. (1866 - 1946) At only 110 pages long this is not a big book, so if you're not a fan of reading this one might / will convince you to do more reading. The original 1960's film starring Rod Taylor as the time traveller, alias, H. George Wells is nothing like this small epic. The film was made for the tastes of a 1960's audience and is absolutely nothing like the book, ok maybe in premise only. We follow the unnamed time traveller as he tries unsuccessfully to convince his friends and fellow academics that time travel is possible. We move forwards and backwards that's 1 ...  Read the complete review