1932 novel by Aldous Huxley
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The Time Machine (book)
H.G. Wells
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H. G. Wells was a crusader of his time, with a leaning toward socialism and social equality. With this tidbit of information, it's interesting to see how The Time Machine was both a hope of utopia and a picture of a seemingly inevitable dystopia. Our time traveler is an amateur scientist who tells an amazing tale to his friends, weekly gatherers at his home for dinner and discussion. He makes a claim to have visited a distant future (in the film, at least, the year … more
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I really want to read more Wells. A friend once told me thinking of a future that is so vastly different from ours is terrifying.
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As a big fan of H.G Wells I had to pick this up after reading The War of the Worlds. It's not as long but it's just as good. Once again I really enjoy the Victorian mentality applied to futuristic technology although whereas space travel is now a real possibility so we can see where Wells went 'wrong', this time the subject of time travel is just as much of an impossibility now as it was when Wells wrote it. The actual specifics of time travel are not really … more
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A haunting tale of past, present and future. Who will forget the Eloi/Morlocks and the far-future cancer-beast on the shores of humanity's sunset?
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I've never been much for Sci-Fi, but this is one of the few books I have read more than once. So entertaining with a draw for everyone.
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Beware the Morlocks,they live among us today !!
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A classic book but may seem a bit uninteresting at times.
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Classic that was written when this was so much more fanciful than today. Truly enjoyable.
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Definitely goes against the blind enthusiasm for our future, a trendsetting in sci-fi.
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a classic, better than the movie!
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great book. kinda scary at some points.
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A science fiction classic, enough said.
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