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Title: The Time Machine: An Invention (Modern Library Classics) by H. G. Wells, Ursula K. Le Guin ISBN: 0-375-76118-7 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 12 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Great novel, poor spelling
Comment: The Time Machine is probably my all-time favorite science fiction novel, so I jumped at the chance to purchase the "critical text" when it became available. Unfortunately as I read the text I found spelling errors in it! For fifty bucks and a critical edition, you'd think the editor and publisher would take more care.
The introduction, annotations, and appendices were worth the price, but simple spelling errors cannot be excused.
For the novel: five stars. For the editing job, 1.
Rating: 5
Summary: H. G. Wells' first novel
Comment: Herbert George Wells wrote "The Time Machine" in 1895; it was his first science fiction novel, and has remained one of his best. Churning out a number of popularized Hollywood flicks, and influencing countless other science fiction stories and shows involving time travel, this is one of his best-known books. We see an un-named character, known throughout the text only as 'the Time Traveller,' setting forth in his machine to the year 802,701 A.D., encountering a situation that is far more sinister than the years he has left behind.
Throughout his life -- up to the tragic day that he died -- Wells was pessimistic about the future (relfected throughout his many prolific works). In "The Time Machine," the Traveller himself does not care much for the age in which he lives, so he sets forth into the future, to perhaps see advancements and development in humanity, away from the stupidity of Nineteenth-Century England. Instead, he finds humanity -- or specifically, the descendants of past humans -- worse off than before, having probably grown too comfortable and at ease with themselves, letting intellect and ingenuity to fester. This passivity enabled the Morlocks, underworld inhabitants who watch over the meek Eloi (descendants of humans living on the surface) to enslave them (as cattle, for they are cannibals, as becomes quite clear in the book). Violence and disaster erupt, thanks to the intervening Time Traveller.
The social parodies made clear in Wells' book are brilliant examples of his talent and merit, though they are striking; there definitely were echoing uproars from Wells' parodies made with the Eloi and Morlocks as representing class differences in Victorian (and later Edwardian) England. Questions relating to human progress imbue the novel, as do questions relating to whether or not a world infested with problems truly is worse than a world without any trouble; will the halo-shining Utopia truly come true, or will stagnation ensue, heightening and exacerbating our vulnerability to future Morlock-like forces?
This Modern Library release is a reissue of an interesting 1931 illustrated edition of "The Time Machine," so while it is an excellent read, it is also an interesting historical piece in itself. H. G. Wells, in a preface to this book, called it the work of an amateur (p. XIX), yet he expressed his delight that it had outlived some of his other pieces. Quite simply, this book will continue outliving many others for generations to come.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Time Machine
Comment: This book is about a man who invented a time machine and he travel into the time to the future.He travel from the year 1895 to the year 802,701. He noticed that the people in that year is totally different from the time he was coming from. The people had the same types of clothes, the shoes and they were little people. He had a really bad time in there because he lost the time machine and other people who lived underground get it but he had to fight for it. When he finally got it, he travel; instead of back, he travel millions of years forward, but he then put the year he want it and he return to the year 1985 where he started from, and then he later travel again but since then 3 years had past and the time traveler hadn't got back....
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