Time Machine

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George Edgar Slusser, Patrick Parrinder, Danièle Chatelain
University of Georgia Press, 2001 - 216 pages
Acclaimed as a work of genius when first published in 1895, The Time Machine represents a revolution in storytelling. H. G. Wells's first--and greatest--novel has been recognized worldwide as a founding text of the science fiction genre and one of the most seminal narratives of the last hundred years.

This collection of essays offers a series of original, penetrating, and wide-ranging perspectives on Wells's masterpiece by an international group of major Wells and science fiction scholars. The authors explore such textual topics as the narrative techniques and mythological undertones of the novel as well as its contribution to modern ideas of time and evolution and its focusing of the intellectual cross-currents of the late nineteenth century. This insightful volume captures the innovative imagination, richness, and fascinating ambiguity that resulted in a classic literary work and demonstrates that Wells's novel is both a visionary story and an unstoppable idea.

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Contents

ROBERT CROSSLEY
12
PAUL ALKON
27
Neoteny Anthropology Society
63
Prophetic Time
110
The Time Machine in
135
Heinleins
160
Michael Bishops Postmodern
176
Doomed Formicary versus the Technological Sublime
188
In the Company of the Immortals
195
Contributors
207
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George Slusser is a professor of comparative literature and director of the Eaton Program for Science Fiction and Fantasy Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Patrick Parrinder is a professor of English at the University of Reading, England, and is a vice president of the H. G. Wells Society. Danièle Chatelain is a professor of French at the University of Redlands.

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