Is time travel really too far fetched to be possible? Can this amazing feat truly be obtained in the power of mortal man? H.G. Well’s The Time Machine dives head first into this pool of ideas and puts an interesting spin on the topic of time travel. The Time Machine truly broadened my idea of what the future might be like with the vivid details and sky high tales of what the earth might be like one day.
The Time Machine seems to take place in the mid to late 1800s in London, England. This book however, as the name implies, does jump around in the time stream. Although throughout most of the book the time traveler is in relatively the same place, he is not, however, in anywhere near the same time period.
The time traveler, we do not get more of a name than that, begins the story by having a get together with some peers to discuss the possibility of his machine. Then, at another meeting, he announces that he has traveled through time. The time traveler then spins a tale of amazing proportions, telling of the earth in hundreds of thousands of years. The reader learns about the whimsical and carefree over-world people, the Eloi, and the animal-like primitive under-worlders, the Morlocks. The time traveler learns a great deal about these people in the quest to recover his stolen time machine.
The Time Machine encourages readers to think about the future. This book also gives a broader range of more imaginative ideas than most literature of this kind. Times are changing, and we, the readers, decide how time unfolds.
I would recommend The Time Machine to fans of science fiction. Although the vocabulary is somewhat above the average level for a teenage read, teens will most likely find this book interesting.
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