The Time Machine (Magill Book Reviews)
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- Author: H. G. Wells
- First Published: 1895
- Type of Work: Science Fiction Novel Science Fiction Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Voyages, Nineteenth century, Extraterrestrial life, Future, England or English people, Time travel, War, Fantasy, London, Adventure, Fire, Mathematics or mathematicians, Technology, Vegetarianism, Evolution, Subterranean or underground regions
- Locales: London, England
THE TIME MACHINE, the first and arguably the finest of H.G. Wells’s science fiction novels, begins in the comfortably prosperous world of the Victorian professional classes, where a scientist proposes the possibility of traveling in the fourth dimension--Time. Wells wisely never tries to explain how the scientist’s time machine works but instead describes its appearance and the sensation that time-traveling produces.
Whatever the principles behind it, the machine succeeds in taking the Time Traveler to A.D. 802,701. England of that age seems to be paradise--an uncultivated...
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