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The Time Machine : An Invention : A Critical Text of the 1895 London First Edition, With an Introduction and Appendices (Annotated H.G. Wells, 1) (Annotated Hg Wells)

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The Time Machine is probably my all-time favorite science fiction novel, so I jumped at the chance to purchase the "critical text" when it became available. Unfortunately as I read the text I found spelling errors in it! For fifty bucks and a critical edition, you'd think the editor and publisher would take more care.

The introduction, annotations, and appendices were worth the price, but simple spelling errors cannot be excused.

For the novel: five stars. For the editing job, 1.

This is an excellent critical edition of the initial edition of the Time Machine by Leon Stover.
Most reprints of the Time Machine and other of Wells' SF novels typically use later revisions. Stover argues effectively for the greater artistic merit of the initial editions. It is part of a series of extensively annotated editions of Wells' science fiction. The editor also has a lengthy introduction which discusses the context and ideas permeating each novel. Stover makes good use of previous studies while also providing his own illuminating analyses. What I like is that Stover keeps close to what Wells wrote and said in his various books and recorded conversations rather
than spinning some personal take on the novel. Please do not confuse this with a typical reprint of the Time Machine or any of his other sf novels. It is much more. Serious readers of HG Wells should get the series.

The Time Machine is a story of a man who prophesized the future. H.G Wells did a great job of setting up the plot of the story and also added a few action scenes. When the main character had went far enough into the future, he discovered a society of mindless people. They did no thinking, just sat around. He found a library of books which hadn't been touched in perhaps a thousand years. Perhaps H.G Wells has given us an insight to our future, or maybe the book is just science fuction. You can read this novel and make that decision for yourself.

This book is about a man who invented a time machine and he travel into the time to the future.He travel from the year 1895 to the year 802,701. He noticed that the people in that year is totally different from the time he was coming from. The people had the same types of clothes, the shoes and they were little people. He had a really bad time in there because he lost the time machine and other people who lived underground get it but he had to fight for it. When he finally got it, he travel; instead of back, he travel millions of years forward, but he then put the year he want it and he return to the year 1985 where he started from, and then he later travel again but since then 3 years had past and the time traveler hadn't got back....