The Time Traveler’s Almanac – Recommendation

The Time Traveler’s Almanac is the largest and most  definitive  collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, this book compiles more than a century’s worth of literary travels into the past and the future that will serve to reacquaint readers with beloved classics of the time travel genre and introduce them to thrilling contemporary innovations.

This marvelous volume includes nearly seventy journeys through time from authors such as Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, H. G. Wells, and Connie Willis, as well as helpful non-fiction articles original to this volume (such as Charles Yu’s “Top Ten Tips For Time Travelers”).

In fact, this book is like a time machine of its very own, covering millions of years of Earth’s history from the age of the dinosaurs through to strange and fascinating futures, spanning the ages from the beginning of time to its very end. The Time Traveler’s Almanac is the ultimate anthology for the time traveler in your life.

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Not a hint at anything (maybe) but this book was recommended to me while I was looking up Time Travel for a story idea. I’m thinking of picking up this book though just to see what others have written on this fascinating topic.

Any time-travelling books/movies/comics/anime you’ve enjoyed that you think I might be interested in?

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Wednesday Book Review: The Time Machine

Title: The Time Machine

Author: H.G. Wells

Genre: Fantasy

Book procurement: Received on Google Play Books. You can buy it on Amazon.

Synopsis: (Goodreads)

The Time Traveler embarks on an astonishing journey into the future. His Time Machine transports him to a far-distant but dying world where humanity is divided into two classes: the graceful , idle Eloi who inhabit the idyllic surface of the world, and the Morlocks, ugly nocturnal creatures who live and work underground. In The Time Machine, Wells created one of the first and finest science fiction stories: a social allegory that is both vivid and perturbing.

 

Review:

I got this book from Google Play Store when looking for something classic and light to read. I’ve always wanted to and between this and some H.G. Wells, I’m catching up with the rest of the reading world.

The story follows a character only referred to as the Time Traveler as he returns from the most extraordinary journey on the face of mankind. And I do not say that lightly. He has organized a group of respectable men to hear his almost ludicrous claim, that he was traveled in time to the far future and lived through a haunting experience.

The story was engaging, told from the perspective of the Time Traveler, as he sweeps through time in his machine and lives through a couple of exciting and unnerving days in the future. The first person perspective makes for a more personal telling, which made me cringe as I read them. Particularly when it comes to the Morlocks – monstrous nocturnal creatures living underground that make the Time Traveler’s time quite miserable.

The world itself is quite fantastic. Explained in vivid detail infused with the Traveler’s own emotions, the world felt like it was alive. I could almost see the wide green expanse of the valley or the idyllic Eloi people frolicking in the sun or the sweeping stars as the world spun around the Traveler towards the future.

I enjoyed this unfortunately short tale, with its concepts on humanity, progression and society, and I look forward to more stories by one of the “Fathers of Science Fiction”

Rating: A well-meaning 4 out of 5