The Time Machine

Returning to a novel you liked years ago is often a risky business, particularly so when the genre of that novel is science fiction. Nothing can age so rapidly as the past’s conception of the future, and what once seemed cutting edge may, after fifty years or more, appear simply ludicrous. Because of......more

The Time Machine is not primarily a novel about time travel, time travel paradoxes and so forth. It is chiefly a speculation on the far future of humanity and, closer to home, about class conflict and the evolution of the industrial civilisation. It starts as an almost casual chat by the fireside abo......more

Surely an oversight that I hadn't read H.G. Wells' The Time Machine before now. By all accounts, this is the original time travel story. Still, social class and how technical innovations change humanity are more central to the story than whether the narrator was actually able to travel to 802,701 AD......more

عن غروب البشرية نتحدث عن البشر عندما صار طولهم 140سم وجوههم ناعمة..لافرق بين النساءوالرجال أصبح الجميع أقرب الأطفال شكلا و موضوعا كسالي غارقون في الراحةو لا يخافون سوى الظلام اندثرت البيوت و انتهى نظام الاسرة الجميع يعيشون في مباني ضخمة لا يوجد تعليم او تجارة او منافسة او حروب اذن فهي الجنة ..لا بل هي أقرب......more