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The Time Machine

The Time Machine

By H.G. Wells Classics 31/05/2011

The H.G. Wells classic that helped launch the time travel genre.

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.

The Time Machine inspired the international bestseller The Map of Time by Félix J. Palma. As a gift to our readers, we are including the first three chapters of The Map of Time in this ebook edition.

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Reviews
  • An Unpleasant Read

    Maybe I missed something, but it seems like a person traveling 802,571 years into the future shouldn’t be getting so excited about finding working matches to light his way. In fact, that should have been nearly impossible. And he finds them in a museum?!? I wouldn’t expect to find LED light bulbs or a flashlight that far ahead much less matches. I got hung up on this point and couldn’t enjoy this ridiculous story. Had this fool character travelled just 80 years into the future he would have seen headlines about a moon landing. At that point a freakin’ butane lighter would have seemed god-like to the Traveller! Ridiculous! He goes 10,000 times further into the future and is wasting his time and resources on match management…and doing that poorly. Oh crap! I should have said spoiler alert. The book was short-sighted and entrenched in London’s superiority being both self-evident and the obvious apex of human civilization with no room for improvement. It drips with colonialism. It reminds me of ‘The Lost World’ and its imperialistic and overtly racist and classist leanings. It gets the second star only because the author creates the terms ‘time machine’ and, I believe, ‘morlock’ too. Those terms are so ingrained in sci-fi and comics that I have to give him respect for that.

    By jesterjace

  • It really questions the nightmare of what youth can do if there’s no sense to serve the elders.

    I like how fire made him golden to them.

    By Bugz9829

  • Engaging story

    This was everything any fan of sci-fi expected from the classic. You can see how this story was the inspiration to thousands of others since the 127 years after it was published.

    By mikemjohnson86

  • The time machine

    Superb

    By TRockTb

  • Great science; okay social science

    The Time Traveler’s scientific curiosity is his main charm. The narration inside the narration creates space for mystery and doubt. Some weird comments about race aside, the book is also an interesting critique of Victorian society.

    By Zeenat.Mahal

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