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A Quick Tip by Joe_Kawano

  • Aug 8, 2010
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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January 29, 2011
Very memorable. I agree!
 
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review by . December 01, 2010
H. G. Wells was both an incredibly gifted science visionary as well as an intelligent social commentator. Those two skills are combined in this book, which soundly set the stage for the use of time travel as a primary plot device for science fiction stories. It also served to create the concept of class warfare leading to a significant separation between the workers and the capitalists. This went against the common belief that progress would continue largely unabated.    The …
review by . July 04, 2010
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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 …
Quick Tip by . January 12, 2011
One of the first HG Wells books I read, then I went out and bought more. Not modern, but definitely intriguing.
Quick Tip by . November 06, 2010
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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.
review by . July 01, 2010
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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 …
Quick Tip by . July 15, 2010
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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.
Quick Tip by . July 04, 2010
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Beware the Morlocks,they live among us today !!
Quick Tip by . July 03, 2010
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A classic book but may seem a bit uninteresting at times.
Quick Tip by . July 02, 2010
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Classic that was written when this was so much more fanciful than today. Truly enjoyable.
Quick Tip by . July 02, 2010
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Definitely goes against the blind enthusiasm for our future, a trendsetting in sci-fi.
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