“This book captured my imagination from chapter one. I enjoy many of the H.G. Wells novels. This one is one of my favorites because it stimulated what I would think is believable yet curious. However, I was disappointed about how he stayed in one time period for almost the whole book; I would have preferred to see the past and more recent future. Overall I enjoyed this book and I give it 4 stars. I reccomend this book to most people who enjoyed other novels by ”
“Has everone else read the piece of text taken out of the book because it was to disturbing for audiences at that time:http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Grey_ManWhat does everyone think?”
“Very interesting story...though a disappointment from what I originally thought it would be. The back of the novel promises a more in-depth analysis of the period from "the time traveler." In contrast, he seems merely to enter an age and observe what is happening...making slight hypothesis as he goes along. I feel that the year he traveled too--802000--is a tad excessive. Wells could have easily made a similar point with a date more easy to grasp. Though I know he was using a great deal of evolutionary theory, I could not even fathom the number until I wrote it down. And to think that a museum had matches, still preserved from our time, 800000 years from now? Seems convenient. His take on the future, however, is undoubtedly original--and creative. He introduces creatures within a society that is distinct from our own, and yet holds many of our own problems. This is definitely an intriguing commentary on society, and I would probably appreciate the work more as that than as a science fiction. Nonetheless, it is extremely important to note that Wells wrote this is 1895--long before any of our contemporary mechanisms came about. Thus, I have to applaud his futuristic thinking. In an era where the microwave had not yet been invented, let alone the digital camera, Wells tackles time travel in a rather sophisticated manner. It's worth a read, ultimately. It's short, it's something to think about, and I would recommend it to any one interested in futuristic novels and/or sci-fi.”
“The book was not what i had expected it. It was more of a social comment than a sci-fi story. Though i was not expecting some high-end technological devices and theories but still, it lacked the science ingridient a bit. What's more is that the story has been narrated monotonically. That made it a bit boring to read. But still liked reading it.”
“As this time machine whizzes into the far flung future we are granted an early warning of Wells' pessimistic and gloomy forecast for the human race. His time traveller, though fully cognisant of refinery and good manners, lacks an essential ingredient in the human being, and we are left with a man teaching us the future and not truly showing us it. Do we care for the Eloi or Morlocks? Does Wells?”
“Wells is one of my favourite writers, and these two stories are of his best. Science may have come a long way now, but the human content of these tales will keep them alive for a long time to come.”
“It's a good science-fiction book..I love it!!!”
“Well a good book if you consider the time period when it was published, more than 100 years ago. Modern science has come too far since then. Though the reasoning still looks passable but somehow I didn't like the writing style of the author much. Tends to be repetitive and insipid sometimes in the narration.”
“Fantastic book, a story of possibilities unexplored by man physically but explored by the mind a million times. An adventure with logical reasons.”
“I laughed, I cried, it became a part of me.”
