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The Time Machine

H.G. Wells

Start date: February 1, 2021

Finish date: February 28, 2021

Discussion: Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Feb 07, 2018 Kavitha Sivakumar rated it really liked it

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The start was very promising and riveting, when the time traveler traveled to distant future and come back. The rest of the novel is his explanation of his time travel. He find that humankind had evolved into two races, one living above the ground and one under the ground. He didn't understand their language at first and so he tried to figure out what could have happened for such evolution where the author give his personal view about how it will be in the future. The time traveler went even fur ...more

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Apr 16, 2021 Mary rated it really liked it

Wells’s Time Traveller tells a bleak vision for the far-flung future of mankind, in which our civilization amounts to “a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end”.

My third novel by Wells. I quite like him as a writer. I also appreciated this while reading his “War of the Worlds”, but he has the ability to convincingly capture the humanity of the characters he’s dropped into his outlandish scenarios. His characters panic, acutely feel their physical d ...more

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