The Time Machine and Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics)
In these 'scientific romances' H. G. Wells sees the present reflected in the future and the future in the present. His aim is to provoke rather than predict. The Sleeper falls into a trance, waking up two centuries later as the richest man in a world of new technologies, power-greedy leaders, sensual elites, and brutalised industrial slaves. Arriving in the year 802,701, the Time-Traveller finds that humanity has evolved into two drastically different species; going farther still, he witnesses the ultimate fate of the solar system. The Chronic Argonauts, the original version of The Time Machine, pits a scientist with daring views of time and space against superstitious villagers. In all three works Wells laces vivid adventure stories with the latest ideas in biology and physics.
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H.G. Wells is a really good at giving the reader an image. He uses high level vocabulary to explain the setting of moments. The Time Machine is a great story. The plot was very unique especially for its early time of publish. It also gives an prediction of the far future. I disliked how the civilians from the future have no idea of the past. They had books and antiques that gave them an idea but it was all about war and annihilation. Although the other stories were quite shorter than the time machine, they too had amazing fictional events, which gives the author the title of a science fictional writer.
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