The Time Machine

Pretty good story. This was another classic that I knew about before actually reading it so the narrative was slightly spoiled but still an enjoyable read. The story has less to do with the paradoxes of time travel, which a lot of creators seem to jump on whenever time travel comes up, but instead Wells takes this opportunity to peer into the possibilities of the developmental progression of society and humanity as a species. This was largely believable, Wells seems pretty thorough in trying to impart a level of realism.

It was clearly influenced by the sociological discussions of his time (the worker versus the owner) but I didn’t think it was so heavy that it ruined anything. In the end, the time machine was more of a means to discussing the distant-future sociology instead of the concept of time travel itself, which was fine and good but still I think an important distinction.