The Time Machine: H.G. Wells' Groundbreaking Time Travel Tale, Classic Science Fiction

96 pages

Published April 28, 2010 by Megalodon Entertainment LLC..

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978-1-61589-008-8
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The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device.Set in Victorian England, Wells' text is viewed in modern times as a comment on the increasing inequality and class division of his era, which he projects as giving rise to separate human species: the fair Eloi and the savage Morlocks. It is believed that Wells' depiction of the Eloi as a race living in plentitude and abandon was inspired by the utopic romance novel News from Nowhere (1890), though Wells' universe in the novel is notably more savage and …

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Thought-provoking speculation about the future of humanity

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Content warning Not sure why I'm putting a spoiler alert on a book that's more than a century old, but hey, you might not have seen either of the movies, and even if you did, they might not have made it clear what was going on with the Morlocks and Eloi.

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