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The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels approximately 802,701 years into the future.
Polski: Powieść H. G. Wellsa "Wehikuł czasu" (org. "The Time Machine") z ilustracjami autorstwa wielu autorów pochodząca z wydania tego opowiadania w czasopiśmie Famous Fantastic Mysteries; sierpień 1950.
The Time Machine (also marketed as H. G. Wells' The Time Machine) is a 1960 American period post-apocalyptic science fiction film based on the 1895 novella of the same name by H. G. Wells. It was produced and directed by George Pal , and stars Rod Taylor , Yvette Mimieux , and Alan Young .
In it, Wells considers the idea of humanity being soon replaced by some other, more advanced, species of being. [1] He bases this thought on his long interest in the paleontological record. At the time of writing Wells had not yet heard of the atomic bomb (but had predicted a form of it in his 1914 book The World Set Free ).
H. G. Wells (1866–1946). H. G. Wells was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His writing career spanned more than sixty years, and his early science fiction novels earned him the title (along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback) of "The Father of Science Fiction".
The Time Machine: H. G. Wells: Towards the end of the book the Time Traveler witnesses the Sun's expansion, causing the death of all life on Earth. Novel 1898 Aliens The War of the Worlds: H. G. Wells: Novel 1901 Eco The Purple Cloud: M. P. Shiel: A volcanic eruption floods the world with cyanide gas. Story 1906 Sun "Finis" Frank Lillie Pollock
Weena is a fictional character in the novel The Time Machine, written by H. G. Wells in 1895 on the concept of time travel. In the story, an unnamed time traveler travels to 802,701 A.D. using his time machine, [1] to find that humans have evolved into two species: the Eloi, the leisure class; and the Morlocks, the working class. [2]
"The Chronic Argonauts" is an 1888 short story by the British science-fiction writer H. G. Wells. It features an inventor who builds a time machine and travels in time using it, and it pre-dates Wells's best-selling 1895 time travel novel The Time Machine by seven years.