![]() ![]() We never learn the name of the Time Traveller or the narrator of the book. In fact, I counted a grand total of two named characters: Filby, "an argumentative person with red hair" and Weena, an Eloi woman who befriends the Time Traveller. ![]() ![]() Got it? Good.Īs with The War of the Worlds, precious few characters have names. The main character has a time machine and he goes forward (then backward) in time. I'm not even going to touch the whole "time travel" concept as Wells presents it in this book, both because it was written in 1895 and because science fiction has so thoroughly confused the matter that trying to claim something "accurately" depicts time travel is always going to be specious. On thematic grounds it's a close battle, but The Time Machine is a far superior story, hands down. Maybe it's unfair to compare them, but having read this hot on the heels of The War of the Worlds, I liked The Time Machine better. ![]()
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