Time Machine

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Published Aug. 15, 1995

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978-0-460-87735-0
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4 stars (3 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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