The Time Machine - H.G. Wells

The Time Machine

By H.G. Wells

  • Release Date: 2011-05-31
  • Genre: Classics
Score: 4
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From 3,530 Ratings

Description

The H.G. Wells classic that helped launch the time travel genre.

The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701: the world has been transformed by a society living in apparent harmony and bliss, but as the Traveler stays in the future he discovers a hidden barbaric and depraved subterranean class.

The Time Machine inspired the international bestseller The Map of Time by Félix J. Palma. As a gift to our readers, we are including the first three chapters of The Map of Time in this ebook edition.

Reviews

  • An Unpleasant Read

    2
    By jesterjace
    Maybe I missed something, but it seems like a person traveling 802,571 years into the future shouldn’t be getting so excited about finding working matches to light his way. In fact, that should have been nearly impossible. And he finds them in a museum?!? I wouldn’t expect to find LED light bulbs or a flashlight that far ahead much less matches. I got hung up on this point and couldn’t enjoy this ridiculous story. Had this fool character travelled just 80 years into the future he would have seen headlines about a moon landing. At that point a freakin’ butane lighter would have seemed god-like to the Traveller! Ridiculous! He goes 10,000 times further into the future and is wasting his time and resources on match management…and doing that poorly. Oh crap! I should have said spoiler alert. The book was short-sighted and entrenched in London’s superiority being both self-evident and the obvious apex of human civilization with no room for improvement. It drips with colonialism. It reminds me of ‘The Lost World’ and its imperialistic and overtly racist and classist leanings. It gets the second star only because the author creates the terms ‘time machine’ and, I believe, ‘morlock’ too. Those terms are so ingrained in sci-fi and comics that I have to give him respect for that.
  • It really questions the nightmare of what youth can do if there’s no sense to serve the elders.

    5
    By Bugz9829
    I like how fire made him golden to them.
  • Engaging story

    4
    By mikemjohnson86
    This was everything any fan of sci-fi expected from the classic. You can see how this story was the inspiration to thousands of others since the 127 years after it was published.
  • The time machine

    5
    By TRockTb
    Superb
  • Great science; okay social science

    4
    By Zeenat.Mahal
    The Time Traveler’s scientific curiosity is his main charm. The narration inside the narration creates space for mystery and doubt. Some weird comments about race aside, the book is also an interesting critique of Victorian society.
  • Amazing

    5
    By Snoopercraft
    This is an amazing book and it has a lot of exciting parts.
  • Amazingly addictive

    5
    By SerenityPrime04
    This book made me feel like if I am traveler myself.I am 10 years old and this book shot me through the imagination of adventures.Though it is short it came to me to wish if it was real.It’s at a good and cheap price.I suggest to buy it .
  • A classic

    5
    By acp1919
    The original. Accept no substitutes.
  • Time Machine

    4
    By Raven Hausman
    Wow! Loved it. So amazing.
  • Awesome

    5
    By Greta the HH lover
    This book is so awesome I read it once and it was super good I fell in love with it and recommended it to my friends this is now my second time reading it!