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The Time Machine Paperback – 16 July 2012
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The Penguin English Library Edition of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
'Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered from the glare'
Chilling, prophetic and hugely influential, The Time Machine sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, where he is delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty and contentment in the form of the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man. But he soon realizes that they are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and living in terror of the sinister Morlocks lurking in the deep tunnels, who threaten his very return home. H. G. Wells defined much of modern science fiction with this 1895 tale of time travel, which questions humanity, society, and our place on Earth.
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- ISBN-100141199342
- ISBN-13978-0141199344
- Edition1st
- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date16 July 2012
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions21.6 x 13.8 x 0.81 cm
- Print length128 pages
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- Publisher : Penguin; 1st edition (16 July 2012)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 128 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0141199342
- ISBN-13 : 978-0141199344
- Dimensions : 21.6 x 13.8 x 0.81 cm
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The son of a professional cricketer and a lady's maid, H. G. Wells (1866-1946) served apprenticeships as a draper and a chemist's assistant before winning a scholarship to the prestigious Normal School of Science in London. While he is best remembered for his groundbreaking science fiction novels, including The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and The Island of Doctor Moreau, Wells also wrote extensively on politics and social matters and was one of the foremost public intellectuals of his day.
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Nicholas Ruddick was born in 1952 in Salford, near Manchester, England and moved to Canada in 1974. From 1982-2017 he taught at the University of Regina, where he is now an Emeritus Professor of English. He's known both as a science fiction critic and as an editor of scholarly editions of novels written near the turn of the twentieth century. He's married to the Swedish-Canadian novelist Britt Holmström.
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“Our mental existences, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.”
The multiple theories between the learned men was fascinating.
For anyone who recalls reading of the Morlocks and Eloi, as a child, or watching the original movie, pick this up again. The basis for so many science fiction references—it remains one of few books able to engage me fully as a reader with fond memories.
I enjoyed being reminded of the beauty of words and novels I devoured growing up reading.
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In a further future, humanity returns to the invertebrate stage. Beyond, the sun dies and planet Earth ends.
Rich in details, Wells directs the reader's mind towards a gloomy tomorrow.

