Ba shi wan nian hou zhi shi jie

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H. G. Wells: Ba shi wan nian hou zhi shi jie (Chinese language, 2012, Beijing zhong xian tuo fang ke ji fa zhan you xian gong si)

68 pages

Chinese language

Published April 29, 2012 by Beijing zhong xian tuo fang ke ji fa zhan you xian gong si.

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4 stars (4 reviews)

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. Wells's transparent commentary on the capitalist society was an instant bestseller and launched the time-travel genre.

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4 stars

Basically the story of a Victorian-era scientist who regales his regular dinner companions with a story of his recent adventure, a trip through time.

As James Gleick pointed out in [b:Time Travel: A History|28587950|Time Travel A History|James Gleick|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1460910277s/28587950.jpg|48754828], this is basically the first time time this type of story was written - hard to believe now that it is so commonplace. The science (or biology or anthropology) is unlikely, perhaps more a metaphor for society. "Don't become sheep, or you will be eaten up."

I was glad to share this book (first read in my teens) with my teen daughter, and we agreed that this is 4 stars.

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