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An edition of The Time Machine (1895)

The Time Machine

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.90 ·
  • 70 Ratings
  • 759 Want to read
  • 69 Currently reading
  • 141 Have read

The Time Machine is the novel that gave us the concept of—and even the word for—a “time machine.” While it’s not Wells’ first story involving time travel, it is the one that most fully fleshes out the concept of a device that can send a person backwards and forwards in time with complete precision. Time machines have since become a staple of the science fiction and fantasy genres, making The Time Machine one of the most deeply influential science fiction novels of the era.

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The time machine
2016, Wisehouse Classics
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The Time Machine
Jan 10, 2015, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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La máquina del tiempo
2015, Sportula
in Spanish - Primera edición.
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The Time Machine
2014, Standard Ebooks
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Time Machine
2008, Real Reads Ltd., Real Reads
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Time Machine
2004, Wildside Press, LLC
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Time Machine, The (sch Cl) (Scholastic Classics)
March 1, 2004, Scholastic Paperbacks, Scholastic
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Time Machine
2003, Hinkler Books Pty, Limited
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La machine a explorer le temps
2003, Editions ABC
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Time Machine
2002, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Time Machine, The
January 1, 1984, Bantam Classics
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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. Wells's transparent commentary on the capitalist society was an instant bestseller and launched the time-travel genre.

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