The Time Machine (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: H. G. Wells
- First Published: 1895
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—time travel
- Time of Work: The late nineteenth century, 802,701, and more than thirty million years in the future
- Setting: The London suburb of Richmond-upon-Thames and the same geographic area in the future
- 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 Plot
H. G. Wells’s fascination with the idea of time travel into the future was first expressed in his story “The Chronic Argonauts” (1888). He wrote at least four other versions before the first book publication of The Time Machine: An Invention in 1895.
The Time Machine is a frame narrative. The outer narrator, Hillyer, briefly sets the scene for the much longer inner narrative, the Time Traveler’s story about his experiences in the future. Hillyer concludes the narrative with a description of the subsequent disappearance of the Time Traveler...
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