I’m surprised I didn’t read this book sooner. I’ve been a big fan of sci-fi since I was a child, and this book was right up my alley. I absolutely loved Wells’ writing style, and the story was such a vastly different take on time traveling compared to most stories that we see that involve the same concept. I liked the fact that he went thousands of years into the future, as opposed to just a hundred or so. This was a very lovely little novella, and I’m definitely going to have to pick up more H.G.Wells in the future.

I had the pleasure of reading this for the first time yesterday. What an astounding book! It happens to be my community’s summer read and still has great relevance today. It was published in 1895 and makes reference to telegraphs and telephones and, surprise… Kodak! The Time Machine has a lot to tell us about the dichotomies of our society and the unfortunate direction in which we may be heading. You can see, too, how it has affected succeeding works of sci-fi. The description of the Morlocks reminded me very much of the underground beings in the recent and very good film, The Descent.