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A review by missybblio
The Time Machine by Dobbs, Mathieu Moreau, H.G. Wells
5.0
In the year 802,701 humanity has split into two separate species. One has become the predator, and one the prey.
With an insight and imagination that seems truly ahead of his time, H. G. Wells imagines a future where the separation between the working class and the upper class has taken (what he sees as) the natural path of becoming so extreme as to drive the working class underground. In the Time Travelers (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) reality, this separation between human classes for the past 800,000 years or so caused the human species to evolve into two separate mammals, with the once lower class now preying on the week and feeble upper class. The Time Traveler then goes on to visit the earth at the very end of its life cycle, and to describe the types of creatures living in this wasteland.
Taken at face value, this is an amazingly creative piece of science fiction. It is made better by the lack of hard to imagine futuristic machinery which I feel takes from the reliability of some science fiction. Then take into consideration this book was published a mere 40 (ish) years after Darwin published his theory On the Origin of Species, and you have a piece of fiction and imagination that seems very ahead of its time. This would be a must read for any sci-fi buff.
With an insight and imagination that seems truly ahead of his time, H. G. Wells imagines a future where the separation between the working class and the upper class has taken (what he sees as) the natural path of becoming so extreme as to drive the working class underground. In the Time Travelers (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) reality, this separation between human classes for the past 800,000 years or so caused the human species to evolve into two separate mammals, with the once lower class now preying on the week and feeble upper class. The Time Traveler then goes on to visit the earth at the very end of its life cycle, and to describe the types of creatures living in this wasteland.
Taken at face value, this is an amazingly creative piece of science fiction. It is made better by the lack of hard to imagine futuristic machinery which I feel takes from the reliability of some science fiction. Then take into consideration this book was published a mere 40 (ish) years after Darwin published his theory On the Origin of Species, and you have a piece of fiction and imagination that seems very ahead of its time. This would be a must read for any sci-fi buff.