When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802, 701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace.
When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802 701 AD he is delighted to ... more
find that suffering has been replaced by peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi an elfin species descended from man he soon realises that this beautiful people are...
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dystopian future has been adapted several times for TV and film. This first ever UK radio adaptation, starring Robert Glenister as the Time Traveler and William Gaunt as H. G.Wells, brings Wells' fascinating ideas and extraordinary visions to vivid life.
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The TimeMachine.
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Author - H.G.Wells.
(1866 - 1946)
Dismiss the original 1960s film from your mind because there are notable differences in the book.
In fact ignore completely the 2002 film which was so removed from the spirit of the book that Wells must have been turning in his grave.
It begins with the nameless 'Time Traveller' conversing with his fellow academics about the theory of a 4th dimension, Time.
He demonstrates with a tiny model which they are sceptical about, all accept Filby, his closest friend.
He proposes to time travel before they next see him.
A week later he is late for his own dinner party, eventually making a startling entrance, dishevelled and agitated.
He takes a seat and a glass of champagne (yes champagne) and begins to recite his story.......,
He travels forward to ...
The TimeMachine.
A wonderful book that is simply far better than any film could come close to matching.
We follow the adventures of the time traveler, who in the book has no name. Not sure if that was somehow significant to H.G.Wells?
He is trying to convince his friends of the plausibility of time travel and how it exists and so can be moved through. they are unconvinced but unknown to them he has already built a prototype in his conservatory. Later that evening he decides to test it out and off the reader goes on what must be, even today, a wonderful and fresh adventure.
He travels to the year 802,701 A.D. where humans have become timid and only 4ft tall. They are called the Eloi and are prayed upon by cannibalistic Morlocks.
He can not stand by and do nothing but he is fighting the evil Morlocks ...
Advantages: A concise classic you can read in an afternoon. Disadvantages: Perhaps should have been longer, more time periods etc.
Overview
Victorian scientist invents timemachine, goes 200,000 years into the future, has some adventures, comes back tells friends about it. Simple as that. Considering how complicated some modern tales of time travel get, the original does it with simplicity and suprising brevity coming in at just over 100 pages.
Review
I am now well aquainted with H.GWells's wirting style having read his main five science fiction novels in quick-succession. And 'quick' is right for none are much over a hundred pages long. More 'novellas' really or novellettes, I lack fim details on the distinctions. And what I have found is this. Wells is not a natural writer. That is, his stories, for me, lack character. He comes up with these huge culture impacting ideas that resonate so strongly and and are still adapted to this day. Reading his stories ...
juan maclean
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Publisher
Penguin Classics
Title
The "Time Machine"
Author
H.G. Wells, Marina Warner, Steve Maclean
Type
Fiction
ISBN
141028955
Genre
Science fiction
Edition
Paperback
EAN
9780141028958
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When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802, 701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace.
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