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The War of the Worlds / The Time Machine

av H. G. Wells

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The Time Machine, Wells' first novel (published in 1895) and The War Of The Worlds (1898), comprise two great firsts in the history of science fiction. Respectively, they were the first novels to center around time travel and the first to suggest intelligent extraterrestrial life and interplanetary invasion. The Time Machine When the Time Traveler boldly steeped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the far future and in an almost unrecognizable world. In another, more utopian age, creatures seemed to live together free of strife and competition. The Time Traveler thought he could learn the secrets of these happy beings and take the lessons of life to his own time - until he discovered that his marvelous invention, his only means of escape, had been stolen. The War of the Worlds "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own. . ." So begins The War of the Worlds, the novel that made Wells famous and has enthralled and terrified for almost 100 years. Ten huge and tireless creatures land in England and, using their deadly rays and crushing strength, threaten the very existence of humankind. Well's classic is not just groundbreaking science fiction, it is a shocking social parable about man's inhumanity to man.… (mer)
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Many credit Wells as the father of the modern genre of science fiction. One needs to only learn these two tutors alone have produced several movies, TV shows, even radio. ( )
  Huba.Library | Nov 29, 2022 |
I wasn't the biggest fan of The Time Machine, I felt like there was only one bit that I enjoyed. The War of the Worlds is what saved this for me, I enjoyed quite a bit more. I think it was the little bit of horror elements in The War of the Worlds that made me like that one. ( )
  KatarinaRogers | Aug 20, 2022 |
Personally, I enjoyed The Time Machine better than The War of the Worlds. I found that often Wells would divert the story onto a tangent more in War of the Worlds. The Time Machine was more straightforward and any tangents were more directly related to the main story. The War of the Worlds took entire chapters away from the main character to focus on a brother whose fate is never revealed. ( )
  nikolasglass | May 23, 2021 |
H.G. Wells pisses me off.

I know these stories are classic, and I know he was writing in the 1890s, but does the narrator have to spend half of his time talking about how he's better than everyone else, and the other half fretting about humankind becoming less "manly"?

Some of the short stories at the end (the "Connections") are clever, though. (They're also by other people.) ( )
  lavaturtle | Dec 31, 2014 |
I only read The Time Machine. More philosopical musing on the future of man than science fiction with a big adventure story thrown in. This was for book group so I'll see what everyone else thinks.
  amyem58 | Jul 15, 2014 |
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No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligence greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
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The Time Machine, Wells' first novel (published in 1895) and The War Of The Worlds (1898), comprise two great firsts in the history of science fiction. Respectively, they were the first novels to center around time travel and the first to suggest intelligent extraterrestrial life and interplanetary invasion. The Time Machine When the Time Traveler boldly steeped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the far future and in an almost unrecognizable world. In another, more utopian age, creatures seemed to live together free of strife and competition. The Time Traveler thought he could learn the secrets of these happy beings and take the lessons of life to his own time - until he discovered that his marvelous invention, his only means of escape, had been stolen. The War of the Worlds "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own. . ." So begins The War of the Worlds, the novel that made Wells famous and has enthralled and terrified for almost 100 years. Ten huge and tireless creatures land in England and, using their deadly rays and crushing strength, threaten the very existence of humankind. Well's classic is not just groundbreaking science fiction, it is a shocking social parable about man's inhumanity to man.

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