The Time Machine

Author: H.G. Wells

 

The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. The fire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses. Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon, and there was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere when thought roams gracefully free of the trammels of precision. And he put it to us in this way—marking the points with a lean forefinger—as we sat and lazily admired his earnestness over this new paradox (as we thought it:) and his fecundity.
‘You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted.


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The Time Machine

Author: H G Wells
 



The Time Machine was first published in 1895, making it the oldest book on the list. Considered by many to be one of the greatest science fiction novels of all the time. this book coined the term "Time Machine" which is almost exclusively used to refer to any device that allows humans to move through time.


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