The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
Taste attributes: science fictionadventurefastfresh & originallightimaginaryglossybig & variedsocial commentaryall consuming quest
Boxlist takeAn otherworldly, original science-fiction novel: sweeping and breezy. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.
Pace: balanced · Originality: very fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: light · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: glossy · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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4.0 / 5
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About This Book
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.
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- Author
- H. G. Wells
- Published
- 1895
- Pages
- 120
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