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Reviewed by: Kim
Rating: 8/10
Genre: Science Fiction
123 pages/1895
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The Time Machine
by
H.G. Wells
This is the story of a man who invents a time machine and then takes a trip into the distant future. What he finds there isn't at all what he expects.
The story itself is interesting, fast-paced, and well written. It is told in the first person and the reader never discovers who the person who is telling the story actually is, other than that he is a friend of the Time Traveller. About 100 pages of this book are one long quote by the author of the Time Traveller telling his story. It's a very different way to tell a story than most of us are used to, but I think the point of it was to be able to leave the story open for debate. Was the Time Traveller telling the truth, or wasn't he? The paragraphs sometimes went on for whole pages and it made me wonder how someone could possibly quote someone else accurately for 100 pages. My biggest complaint about this book is that a lot of the science is off. But of course it must be taken into consideration that this was written over 100 years ago. Ignoring the science, this was a good thought-provoking read.
Wells may posit that human advancement isn't inevitable, but he still leaves us with an optimistic outlook on humanity: "Even when mind and strength are gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived in the heart of man."
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