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The Time Machine
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#36 on NPR's Top 100 SF/F novels of all time (2011 poll) http://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/1390858...

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Scot
Jun 17, 2014 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: classics, scifi
It is hard to argue against the fact that H.G. Wells was a trailblazer for modern SciFi authors and this seems the book that started it all. His style seems as though it could have been written today just as easily as over one hundred years ago. Glad to have read it and a quick read so much better than the cheesy movie made in the early 2000s.

Overall, I think the message that Wells attempted to get across is as equally valid today as it was upon first publishing. Through the Morlocks and Eloi he
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Kimberly
Jan 19, 2015 rated it it was amazing
I loved this book. Such a simple yet insightful read. I just downloaded 5 more HG Wells books
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