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The Time Machine

HG Wells author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Orion Publishing Co

Published:12th Jan '17

Should be back in stock very soon

The Time Machine cover

A Victorian scientist develops a time machine and travels to the year 802,171 AD. There he finds the meek, child-like Eloi who live in fear of the underground-dwelling Morlocks. When his time machine goes missing, the Traveller faces a fight to enter the Morlocks' domain and return to his own time.

THE TIME MACHINE remains one of the cornerstones of science-fiction literature and has proved hugely influential.

For my money, this was the birth of modern science fiction. Mary Shelley invented science fiction with Frankenstein, but The Time Machine is something else. I like to try to imagine people reading this when it was originally published as a newspaper serial in 1895 England. Still unforgettable, thrilling, haunting.

ISBN: 9781473217973

Dimensions: 163mm x 200mm x 12mm

Weight: 131g

144 pages