H.G. Wells's perennial Time machine : selected essays from the Centenary Conference "The Time Machine: Past, Present, and Future", Imperial College, London, July 26-29, 1995
Wells's novel ""The Time Machine"" is considered by many to be a founding text of the science fiction genre. This collection of essays offers a series of perspectives on the novel, including such textual topics as its narrative techniques and mythological undertones.
Kongress London 1995
xvi, 216 pages ; 24 cm
9780820322902, 9780820350622, 0820322903, 0820350621
46353408
The time machine as first novel / J.R. Hammond
Taking it as a story / Robert Crossley
Was the time machine necessary? / Paul Alkon
The rebirth of a scientific intelligence / Frank Scafella
Time before and after The time machine / W.M.S. Russell
Wells and neoteny / Kirby Farrell
The time machine and Victorian mythology / Sylvia Hardy
The time machine and Wells's social trajectory / John Huntington
From Rome to Richmond / Patrick Parrinder
Change in the city / Carlo Pagetti
Time at the end of its tether / Larry W. Caldwell
The legacy of H.G. Wells's The time machine / Joshua Stein
Wells and the sequency-simultaneity paradox / Danièle Chatelain and George Slusser
A revision and a gloss / David Leone Higdon
Doomed formicary versus the technological sublime / Brain W. Aldiss
Afterword: in the company of the immortals / Patrick Parrinder