Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946), usually referred to as H. G. Wells, was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, including even two books on war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called a "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. During his own lifetime, however, he was most prominent as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. A futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of airplanes, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web. His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering. Brian Aldiss referred to Wells as the "Shakespeare of science fiction”. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. Wells's earliest specialised training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a specifically and fundamentally Darwinian context. He was also from an early date an outspoken socialist, often (but not always, as at the beginning of the First World War) sympathising with pacifist views. His later works became increasingly political and didactic, and he wrote little science fiction, while he sometimes indicated on official documents that his profession was that of journalist. Novels such as Kipps and The History of Mr Polly, which describe lower-middle-class life, led to the suggestion that he was a worthy successor to Charles Dickens,[12] but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay (1909), a diagnosis of English society as a whole. A diabetic, Wells co-founded the charity The Diabetic Association (known today as Diabetes UK) in 1934.
When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700--and everything has changed.In another, more utopian age, creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony.The Time Traveller thought he could study these marvelous beings--unearth their secret and then retum to his own time--until he discovered that his invention, his only avenue of escape, had been stolen.H.G. Well's famous novel of one man's astonishing journey beyond the conventional limits of the imagination first appeared in 1895.It won him immediate recognition, and has been regarded ever since as one of the great masterpieces in the literature of science fiction.
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書中有很多觀點讓我很是驚訝,也覺得確實很有道理,比如,時間是空間的第四維,“力量是需求的産物,安逸助長虛弱”,“人類終將毀瞭自己”。 基於現代科學技術水平蒸蒸日上,我從未想過人類會走嚮衰落的盡頭。我們的社會一直把共産主義作為追求的最終目標,我也對共産...
評分不愧是科幻小說鼻祖之一,寫得真夠……原始的。讀起來和其他19世紀末的科幻或者類似科幻的小說有很多相似之處,比如說通篇第一人稱,比如說大段大段獨白,比如說主人公主觀推理猜想段落比劇情超齣一大截。這些讓這本書讀起來難免有些乏味,不過還好篇幅不長。這可能是作者是英...
評分 評分科幻小說接觸的不多,雪萊的《弗蘭肯斯坦》讀過,但沒什麼感覺;知道愛倫-坡有過類似的探索;知道凡爾納的各種奇妙的旅行;知道阿西莫夫和他的機器人,但具體內容卻一直沒有詳細看過。 至於這部《時間機器》,我看到名字首先想到的卻是《時間飛船》,或者叫《小雙俠》。...
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Very interesting~ I think maybe the time traveller traveled back to save Weena's life. It would be romantic fiction if it is ture,haha
評分Very interesting~ I think maybe the time traveller traveled back to save Weena's life. It would be romantic fiction if it is ture,haha
評分我應該沒看懂_(:з」∠)_百科介紹的本書分量之所在沒給看齣來????There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.先標記著,有機會再讀讀。
評分MD~這種書不能看英文版的。沒看完…
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