*SEVENTEENTH REVIEW*
NAME- THE TIME MACHINE
AUTHOR- LATE H.G. WELLS
RATING- 9/10

This was a short read but I was hooked from start to finish and i can see now why H.G. Wells is considered the father of science fiction with this account of the adventures of a time traveller. Despite all of the time travellers peers saying that he was mad he was able to travel through time and we are taken along for the journey that starts as the time traveller comes back from his travels and recounts what he had seen and experienced. He tells his tale of his journey 800,000 years into the future and his encounter with the small Eloi and the subterranean monsters the Morlocks. As he tells his tale you can tell he is a very clever man and quite reserved as you never truly feel that he is telling the full truth about what he actually saw so you have to use your own imagination to fill in the gaps which I didn't mind as it allowed my imagination to run wild. The story starts to get more intense as you learn more about this far distant future and how humans as we know them are gone and there is only those that live on land and those who live under ground. we learn more about the Eloi and the Morlocks and why the Eloi fear them. He eventually travels further into the future and sees the end of the world and all that is left as he can see are giant crabs and he comes to terms with what he sees and has experienced with the Eloi and the Morlocks and is saddend by the fact that this is the future of the human race. He returns to the start of this tale and I like how this story ends as it leaves it open for your mind to race as to what happened to the time traveller where and when did he go and why. And it is just incredible at 118 pages that I could feel such a connection towards the time traveller who is never given a name or told anything about him you are left to make up your own opinion of him and he is just incredible and wish we had more time with him.