The Time Machine -H. G. Wells

The Time Machine

Genre	Scientific Romance
First Published	1895
Republished after 1960	Yes
Currently in Print	Yes
Availability	Very Common; 1st edition very rare - big $$$
Number of pages	editions vary widely; about 100
My rating	5 stars

Wells' first scientific romance.

There is little to add about a book that has been so heavily written about, but to add that its simply spectactular. The film treatment is considerably different than the novel in many respects.

Concepts explored that were more or less innovative/original:

travel through time by means of a machine
Darwinian theory applied to future human evolution
time as a dimension of space (the idea had been kicked around in small circles years beforehand, but Wells was the first to use it in fiction.)

Here The Time Traveler "controverts" a widely held notion about time:

"'There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our conciousness moves along it'" (The Time Machine, 4).

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