The Time Machine

TThe Time Machine by H.G. Wells
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

We read this for book club. It was a good early foray into science fiction. Someone pointed out that it was Wells that coined the term time travel. Indeed, the argument for the possibility of traveling in the Fourth dimension was intriguing and the most logical argument for it that I've come across. Still while the story of the time traveller was interesting, it didn't hold either the interest or horror for me that it would have for earlier audiences. Too much apocalyptic literature these days, I suppose. In fact, The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman must have borrowed a lot from Wells, because it reminded me a lot of each other. It would be nice if someone travelled into the future and found out that we didn't annihilate ourselves, though. It wouldn't be as interesting, but I'm just sayin, it would be nice.

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