a very interesting commentary on industralisation....

creeeeeepy! the "underworlders" are going to feed off of those that still live above ground because we have gotten lazy and comfortable!? HG Wells is crazy. like a fox.

This was a fun read. Wells' vision of the distant future is both wild and plausible. He touches on themes related to science, technology and politics, and he does it in a captivating way. A definite must-read!

The first half of the book is labored, but when the Time Traveler reaches his epiphany about humanity, things pick up and it concludes with what I felt was a touching resolution. This is the last book I'll probably read for the year 2014. I went into it expecting very little, thinking that this would just be a perfunctory bit of exercise to reach my reading goal, but this was a fantastic send-off.

The way Wells expresses the socio-economic concerns is kind of simplistic and clumsy, but I would like to think the former student of Aldous Huxley's grandfather was well-intentioned, especially for a late 19th century writer. You can definitely see the beginnings of ideas that Huxley himself develops years later: the dangers of technology, economic inequality/stratification, and social complacency.

H. G. Wells was a very interesting man, and extremely creative. He was very innovative for his time. Having read recently two books by Felix Palma where he has Mr. Wells as a character and incorporates this book in one and The War of the Worlds in the other, I wanted to go back and read these originals, as I hadn't before. It was an interesting read, well written and lots to make you think. I would have loved to have been able to meet Mr. Wells.

dnf. i’ll try to read it another time but it’s just so boring

So far my least favorite in the collection. The whole story is written with a lot of surmise and conjecture projecting the society of Wells' era into the future which didn't seem to make a lot of sense to me.