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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赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯(Herbert George Wells)1866年9月21日-1946年8月13日,威尔斯出生于英国肯特郡,就读于皇家科学院,也就是今天的帝国理工学院,师从博物学家托马斯·亨利·赫胥黎,学习生物学,深受进化论影响。其代表作有《隐身人》《星际之战》《神的食物》《世界史纲》,与儒勒·凡尔纳并称为"科幻文学之父"。威尔斯曾于1921年、1932年、1935年和1946年分别获诺贝尔文学奖提名。
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