The Time Machine

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• The Time Machine and War of the Worlds

  I suppose a series calling itself SF Masterworks really wouldn't be complete without representing the grandfather of English language SF. There can be no argument that these two stories are classics of the genre. But are they timeless classics? Absol ... (read full critics)

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• The Time Machine

  In 1888, the Science Schools Journal, the magazine of the Normal School of Science, published an incomplete serial by the journal's founder and former editor, H.G. Wells. The serial was called 'The Chronic Argonauts' and over the next several years W ... (read full critics)

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  I love the plot

  As I have said, I love the plot, how the story is started, and how the story is ending. Altough I was kind of pissed off with the ending, but it what things should be. Imagine, when a person is going to the future, undergo their life for a few years, and back to their time, and late just about a few ... (continue)

  As I have said, I love the plot, how the story is started, and how the story is ending. Altough I was kind of pissed off with the ending, but it what things should be. Imagine, when a person is going to the future, undergo their life for a few years, and back to their time, and late just about a few hours? If he had take some prove from the future, things wouldn't going right. You can't solve mystery from the future. Future is mystery as the past is a history. He is deserve to live and dead in the future. The first travel brings him to some creatures, and he is learning their languages, their culture, and their lifestyles. He is telling everyone but the others thinks that he had gone mad. The second travel brings him to stay forever and after right toward the future. I love the story because it is fair, and the person who had have the experience is not the main character. The second character is taking over the story in that book, but the main character is remain as the person who is telling us about the story. Actually, I've once thinks that maybe we had actually made it to travels through time. People might say that if we had succesful in travelling time, why wouldn't we, from the future, coming back to visit us? And maybe, the UFO that had always seens is the time machine, and human being from the future had some revolution from us, right now, to some small and short alien-faces human being? I think maybe lots of people thinks that H.G. Wells is crazy but he is using logic and imagination. This book should get an awards! (I'd read it in my school library, but the cover is not fully yellow-coloured like that, it had a man with time machine on it. And the book is using recycled old paper, with small sized)

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  It was a good book, insightful, but iI was dissapointed with the ending.

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  Zachary said on Jul 10, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  I read it freely on my iPod Touch thanks to the Gutenberg Project. It's the first book I'm not reading on paper so it was interesting… And I could smell the old pages even though it's on a electronic device. I liked the story. Some parts are questionable to me but, seriously, all the thinking Wells ... (continue)

  I read it freely on my iPod Touch thanks to the Gutenberg Project. It's the first book I'm not reading on paper so it was interesting… And I could smell the old pages even though it's on a electronic device. I liked the story. Some parts are questionable to me but, seriously, all the thinking Wells put into this must be huge. It felt like everything has been thought, on the scientific level, on the social level, etc… This new world is so intriguing. It's all about a man's will to see how the world as we know it will end. The end was surprising.

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  Patricia said on Apr 28, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  It's creepy how much truth can be found in a book... a future like the one Well tells us about is probably not that far away. Sad omen.

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  Merenwen Oronar said on Jan 16, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  I've always been fascinated by time travel. This is regarded as the earliest great time travel work.

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  audioreader said on Aug 15, 2008 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 128 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0141439971
• ISBN-13: 9780141439976
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Pub date: May 31, 2005
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, School & Library Binding, Unbound, Others and eBook
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