Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Overview... a scientist with a radical idea. While his friends might scoff, Wells is adamant that he's created a time machine. And not only that, but he insists that he's travelled thousands of years into the future as well. What he finds there, however, is hardly always pleasant...
Personality... intelligent, eccentric, and driven. While most people might know the Time Traveler for his outlandish stories and quirks, Well isn't just a heartless machine – he cares deeply for his fellow men and is horrified by the future's cruelty. Maybe there isn't much he can do to rescue humanity in the future, but if there's one life he can save from death, then he's determined to do it.
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Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
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The revolutionary novel that catapulted readers into the future, from the father of science fiction, H.G. Wells.
“I’ve had a most amazing time....”
So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account of his journey eight hundred thousand years beyond his own era—and the story that launched H. G. Wells’s successful career. With a speculative leap that still fires the imagination, Wells sends his brave explorer to face a future burdened with our greatest hopes...and our darkest fears. A pull of the Time Machine’s lever propels him to the age of a slowly dying Earth. There he discovers two bizarre races—the ethereal Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks—who not only symbolize the duality of human nature, but offer a terrifying portrait of tomorrow as well.
Published in 1895, this masterpiece of invention captivated readers on the threshold of a new century. Thanks to Wells’s expert storytelling and provocative insight, The Time Machine will continue to enthrall readers for generations to come.
With an Introduction by Greg Bear
and an Afterword by Simon J. James
