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An edition of The Time Machine (1895)

The Time Machine

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The Time Machine is the novel that gave us the concept of—and even the word for—a “time machine.” While it’s not Wells’ first story involving time travel, it is the one that most fully fleshes out the concept of a device that can send a person backwards and forwards in time with complete precision. Time machines have since become a staple of the science fiction and fantasy genres, making The Time Machine one of the most deeply influential science fiction novels of the era.
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The time machine
2016, Wisehouse Classics
in English - Wisehouse Classics edition.
Cover of: La máquina del tiempo
La máquina del tiempo
2015, Sportula
in Spanish - Primera edición.
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The Time Machine
Jan 10, 2015, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
paperback
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The Time Machine
2014, Standard Ebooks
in English
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Time Machine
2008, Real Reads Ltd., Real Reads
in English
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Time Machine, The (sch Cl) (Scholastic Classics)
March 1, 2004, Scholastic Paperbacks, Scholastic
in English
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Time Machine
2004, Wildside Press, LLC
in English
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The Time Machine
oktober 2, 2004, octopus publishing house
in English
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Time Machine
2003, Hinkler Books Pty, Limited
in English
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Time Machine
2002, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
in English
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Time Machine, The
January 1, 1984, Bantam Classics
Mass Market Paperback in English

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The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701: the world has been transformed by a society living in apparent harmony and bliss, but as the Traveler stays in the future he discovers a hidden barbaric and depraved subterranean class. Wells's transparent commentary on the capitalist society was an instant bestseller and launched the time-travel genre.

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