The Time Machine

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Summary: too good for 1895!!!
Review: the time traveller(or so it will be convenient to speak of him). H.G. WELLS did a brilliant job for that time . Time is a dimension alright & we can move in time but at a predefined speed & in one direction only. Space has less restrictions on our movements in 2 dimensions but for verticle motion the restriction is there . H.G. WELLS explains every thing in great details . I hope some day we will break the restrictions & tarvel in time like we did by inventing the aircraft & broke the restriction of gravity. Anyway great book a must for every si.fi. fan

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Summary: Beautiful.
Review: Amazing. The first novel assigned to me that caught my interest, which is one of the reasons why I give it five stars. Very intellectual writing, splendid details. Doubt in the unnamed Time Traveller's time travelling shows peoples' tendency to be afraid of grasping new ideas and concepts, and the Time Traveller's unassurance that life could be a dream questions our existence, as again done in a previously released movie. The psychological aspects of this story are spectacular, but one thing I am disappointed about is how the Time Traveller labels certain beings as inhuman and, so to say, "bad." Humans defined what is considered good or bad, civilized or primitive, clean or filthy, and even time itself. Nothing is impossible, though...

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Summary: Very good book!!!!!!
Review: I read this book this year for school. Like most of the books we had read this year I was expecting this one to be boring & pointless. I was so wrong, this book is one of the best I have ever read and would recommend it to anyone looking for a good science fiction book. I loved this book so much that I even bought the movie. The movie was also excellent and was a little easier to understand than the book.

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Summary: AN EXQUISITE AND VISERAL ADVENTURE!!!!
Review: HG WELLS gives an emotionally moving and fascinating journey into the unknown depths of our future. My two favorite passages from this book are: "you know that great pause that comes before the dusk? Even the breeze stops in the trees. To me there is always an air of expectation in that evening stillness." AND... I have by me for my comfort, two strange white flowers now brown and brittle , to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man. This last line in the context of this beautiful book made me cry. Seldom have I read a book so artfully written,one that you can immerse the totality of your being and soul into. I felt like I was there. I enthusiastically recommend this book to all, young, and old alike.

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Summary: An excellent book of science, horror and imagination.
Review: I first read this book when I was ten years old and it had a profound affect on me. The Time Machine, along with The War of the Worlds stands as one of the first books of modern science fiction. When I was growing up, H.G.Wells had a strong impact on my life. His books always takes the reader into a web of science and imagination. The reader is faced with the horrors and wonders of science and its abilities. Every year I take time off to read this book and when I do, it brings me the same affect that it first brought me when I was ten. H.G.Wells was truly a master of science fiction.

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Summary: A magnificent allegory.
Review: This is Wells' (1866-1946) first novel. It is a social allegory in which the unnamed hero travels to the year 802701 and finds an Earth completely altered. It appears initially to be a form of utopia but the Traveler soon discovers that this is far from true. Society has two classes. The Morlocks, subterreanean workers, are beings evolved from man that have sunk to depravity and who prey on the decadent Eloi. The Eloi are completely useless beings, totally dependent on the Morlocks. Wells is suggesting a world in which the two main classes of Britain of the 1890s have degraded into Morlocks and Eloi. The world of 802701 is the end result of unrestrained and unchecked class struggles and isolation. The upper class has degraded to uselessness and the lower class has become buried by their labor and degenerate into darkness. The term "Morlock" is derived from the Biblical word "Molech," the epithet of a deity to whom children were offered as sacrifices. "Eloi" comes from the Hebrew for "my God" and is associated with an important phrase in the Bible (a rendering of the first verse of Psalm 22 is "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani" ["My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me"], a phrase heard again in Mark 15:34). Thus, both terms are appropriate descriptions of the two classes. Are the Eloi forsaken? Or, will the Traveler return to help them? Although this is probably the first novel containing a time machine, it is not the first time traveling novel. Both Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (1889) and Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" (1843) precede it. In de Grainville's "The Last Man" (1805), a Frenchman views future events through a mirror; he doesn't actually travel through time. Finally, to the reviewer of Jan. 24, 1999, from New York, there is a reason why the Traveler remains unnamed! Can you see it?

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Summary: H.G. Wells was the first.
Review: Regardless of what an earlier poster claims H.G. Wells was the first to write a novel about a Time Machine. That being said,I recommend this book to anyone.

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Summary: My Favorite Sci-Fi book.
Review: A trip

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Summary: An interesting prospective on what the future has in store
Review: I have read the book and seen the movie several times and i think that original or not the way he brought it about and the ideals that he had about mans future were enlightning and verry creative one thing that history has tought us is that most of what man achieves and invents usually started out as fantasy or science fiction in this case i hope history does not hold true to par or god help us all.

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Summary: H G Wells: a gifted writer and visionary
Review: I had seen the movie a numerous amount of times over the years and like anyone who reads, we know that books are almost always better than the movies. Upon reading the book, I felt that this was an instance where film and book were both done equally well. I enjoyed each version for many different reasons. The movie for it's visual concept. They kept the film pretty much the way H. G. Wells had envisioned it. The book for taking it a little deeper than the movie dared. The movie never deals with the Time Traveller going further ahead into the future, past the time of the Eloi and the Morlocks, to the very near end of the earth and the extinction of the sun. An immensley enjoyable story. Eerie and fun. A great movie too.