La Máquina Del Tiempo

Escrito por H. G. Wells

Narrado por Carlos J. Vega

En esta novela un viajero logra avanzar cientos de siglos en el tiempo y se encuentra con el estado final de la evolucion humana, en que las clases trabajadoras acaban siendo esclavas de las privilegiadas, en una forma tan sutil que ni ellos mismos se dan cuenta.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: YOYO USA
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 1 ene 2001
• ISBN: 9781611553314

H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells is considered by many to be the father of science fiction. He was the author of numerous classics such as The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The War of the Worlds, and many more. 

Comentarios para La Máquina Del Tiempo

[nielspeterqm · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

As much time travel as futurist dystopia – 800 000 years from now! – this is one of the first "real" sf novels & it reads as fluidly & thoughtfully as ever.

[vanishext · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Great time travel classic. I have read it three times.

[bookconcierge · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Classic science fiction from one of the “fathers” of the genre (along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback). At a dinner party in 1895 London, the host introduces the idea of a fourth dimension of time, and demonstrates a small model of a machine he has constructed to travel through time. His guests, who are learned men, are incredulous and suspect some sort of legerdemain. But he insists it was not a trick, and further claims to have built a full-size machine that will allow a man to travel through time. He then invites them, plus a few additional gentlemen, to a future dinner where he promises to explain further. However their host is not in the house when they assemble the next week, though he has left instructions to begin without him. When he finally does appear, he is disheveled and clearly distressed and exhausted. After he has cleaned himself and eaten some, he tells them of his travels through time and what he has witnessed as the future of the Earth and her inhabitants.This is a gripping story and very well told. Wells imagines a future that is very different from the society of 1895 London, and from any of today’s civilizations. As the Time Traveler (he is never given any other name in the story) recounts his adventures he explains his evolving theories of what has happened. Darwin’s theories of evolution had been well established and accepted in learned circles by the time Wells was writing this book. His Time Traveler had expected to find an age of glorious invention, demonstrating man’s growing intelligence, but has to alter his assumptions of how man will evolve based on what he observes.What I find most fascinating is the decline of intelligence that Wells imagines. The Time Traveler supposes that as men developed industry and societal structure, they came to a point where there was no need to struggles to achieve all their needs. As necessity is the mother of invention, they slowly lost their inventiveness, their curiosity, their desire to improve or change their environment. I am reminded of a statement of Ray Bradbury’s where he laments the influence of mass media on today’s society; in effect, he feels that we are choosing to abandon curiosity and intelligence in favor of mindless entertainment. A society that does not read is no better off than a society that cannot read.I listened to the audio book narrated by Scott Brick. Brick’s performance of the audio book hits just the right tone. He strikes the right balance between an objective scientist reporting the results of his experimentation, and the fright, delight, anxiety of the Traveler as he relives the experiences.

[gmomaj · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Includes three chapters of The Map of Time/Felix J. Palma.One of my all time favorite science fiction titles. The type of book that you can reread.

[tess_w · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

This is a novella about a time-traveller who firstly embarks to about 8270 AD (?) to the world of flesh eating Morlocks and peace-loving Eloi. I liked this book much better than The War of the Worlds as I think it has withstood the test of time a little better. I loved the vocabulary of Wells, much larger than today's writers and I even had to look up a few words to add to my word journal. Sci-fi is really not my genre at all (I usually despise it), but due to the writing and the short length of this book, it kept by rapt attention and I read it in one sitting. 88 pages

[adilinaria · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

I wasn't a huge fan of this, not because of the story but the narrative style. It was very stiff for me, with all description. Probably my least favorite of all my classical reads so far. I am glad however that I read it, and I really like my edition so I'll definitely keep this one

[mistycliff · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

So, last week your friend had a few gentlemen, all learned men, over for cocktails and conversation. He pulled some sort of elaborate parlor trick by which he made a trinket disappear before the party’s eyes. Thinking him a grand magician, indeed, you meet at his house, again, to find the host nowhere in sight. As dinner is about to be served, your man of the hour stumbles in the front door, covered head-to-toe in scrapes and dirt. In one giant breath he tells you fantastic, daring, and quite frankly, unbelievable tales of time travel and life threatening heroics.Welcome to The Time Machine by H.G. Wells. Said to be one of the first, and still creepiest, science fiction thrillers of all time, the short story is essentially a monologue on culture, disguised as the whimsy of time travel.Because the story itself is so short and the basics of it rely on the element of surprise, I’ll stop there on the details.I’ve recently found myself reading the Victorian classics where I’ve always stayed a bit clear of them in the past. Of course, one trip into a Wells book and a reader quickly realizes that it wasn’t all lace and stuffy parlors. He most certainly held no punches regarding his thoughts on the status-quo.Through a series of now antiquated, then cutting edge, revelations, he steam rolls over evolutionary predictions and brings pointed accusations at his peers and countrymen, regarding social economics. Allegories both beautiful and sinister could aptly apply to London (or New York), today, those same questions of moral responsibility framed technologically, socially and spiritually.I have always loved the story but I don’t think I have read it in its entirety in a long time. It’s a great story and I found myself shaking my head and wondering what Wells would think of our technologically dependant, still socially divided society.

[schlau-2 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Listened to the Alien Voices production of this work which made the tale come alive. Love those guys. RIP Leonard.

[amyelizabeth_1 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

The Time Machine is the first book by H.G. Wells that I've finished (I've started The Invisible Man twice now and have yet to complete it). My interest in reading The Time Machine was piqued when I saw the 2002 movie. At the time I thought, "This movie is so cheesy! I bet the book is just as interesting minus the cheese factor." Unfortunately, having now read the book, I can say I actually prefer the movie. Maybe if I hadn't seen the movie first, I would've thought the book was brilliant. However, all I could do was compare the two, and it turns out the book just couldn't hold my interest as well.This is, of course, a classic, so I'm going to assume most of you understand what the premise is and not go into a long synopsis. Of course there is a man who builds a machine and travels through time. Easy enough. Now, Wells' underlying agenda, as it appeared to me, was to write an allegory of the future, detailing the Haves and Have-Nots, i.e. the Capitalists vs. the Laborers. The time traveler (who is never given a proper name) gets thousands of years into the future and thinks he's discovered a happy, peaceful communist human existence. However, he has only seen the Upper-World, and it is only when he is made aware of the Under-World, and the Morlocks, the time traveler realizes that the old aristocracy of the Upper-World have become the lesser beings. The hard-working Morlocks, who used to be the laborers of society, have continued to evolve and their need (to eat, adapt, etc.) has allowed them to reverse their roles and become the more dominant species.All of this, I believe, is Wells' way of warning the current generation that the complacency of the Haves, of the aristocracy, is what will eventually lead to our undoing. It is those who work and persevere who will be the conquerors.As far as the differences between the book and the movie: there were too many to mention. While the book obviously made a point of showing us what will be our undoing, the movie was just more entertaining, with more action and more mystery (the only real mystery in the book is what happened to the time traveler at the end). So, while I appreciate the message Wells was sending, I'd still rather watch the movie. 3 out of 5 stars.

[jdifelice-1 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

This classic sci-fi tale, was interesting, but I really didn't enjoy the writing style, or the delivery of the story told. The whole, time travelling to the end of the world was really cool, and I enjoyed the philosophical ideas discussed, but I just really didn't enjoy the whole telling aspect as opposed to showing. In some books, when a narrator starts telling you a story, it starts out as a telling, but then you become immersed in the tale as if you were there and it was happening right then and there - this wasn't the case in this book - it was just like sitting around and someone telling you about the time they time travelled. Which is all well and good - but not what I enjoy when I read a book.

I appreciate what this story is and did for modern science fiction, but in present day - it just wasn't very great.

[msaucier818 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

This very short novel is the classic birth of science fiction writing. The backdrop of time travel is used to discuss the ideas of how mankind and different economic classes of people will develop and play off of one another. The Time Traveler guesses that over time, the aristocrats or Eloi had become so used to living off the hard work of the working class Morlocks that they became complacent and lazy. In the end, they lost all drive and purpose and were fearful of the Morlocks who could only come out in the dark and would kidnap the Eloi to eat then. I found the story to be fascinating and I could not put it down until I finished. Wells was way ahead of his 19th century world and I really cannot wait to read another of his stories.

[shanaqui_1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I enjoyed this a lot more than The Invisible Man. It's easy to read, and interesting, and innovative for its time. I really liked the descriptions of the ruins and of the fallen human race -- of Weena, mostly. It would be hard not to feel sympathetic towards her character, despite there not being much to it. I especially liked the ending, actually -- the idea of the flowers symbolising the things that still remained in the human race.

[yagamilight_1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

This novella by H. G. Wells is about society and decay. A nameless traveler living in the end of the nineteenth century builds a time machine and shows us a bitter image of the future. Humankind is living in a pacifistic, communist and vegetarian society, having all they need and worrying about nothing. What seems like perfection in the first place, later turns out to be a dystopia on its own. It is a great promethean parable, criticizing the two-class-system, but also showing the dangers of nihilist communism. And although the later chapters are weaker in the story they are most beautifully and atmospherically written.Whoever wants to understand Wells has to read this book, the very first of his fancies.

[maxernst11 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Leuk om lezen, maar stilistisch duidelijk nog onvolkomen. Goede spanning opbouw.Onthutsend inzicht: het verhaal van de mens is eindig!

[sparkleponies · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

The Narrate does a good job with his recount of what happen to him, during his time travel experience. The tale he tells is almost to outrageous to believe. H G wells did a nice job for the time period in which the book was written.

[missboyer3 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Basically, Wells is posing the question of What will man be like in the distant future? His answer is quite unlike any kind of scenario that modern readers, schooled on Star Wars, Star Trek, and the like, would come up with. He gives birth to a simple and tragic society made up of the Eloi and the Morlocks. In contrasting these two groups, he offers a critique of sorts of men in his own time. Clearly, he is worried about the gap between the rich and the poor widening in his own world and is warning his readers of the dangers posed by such a growing rift. It is most interesting to see how the Time Traveler's views of the future change over the course of his stay there. At first, he basically thinks that the Morlocks, stuck underground, have been forced to do all the work of man while the Eloi on the surface play and dance around in perpetual leisure. Later, he realizes that the truth is more complicated than that. The whole book seems to be a warning against scientific omniscience and communal living. The future human society that the Time Traveler finds is supposedly ideal--free of disease, wars, discrimination, intensive labor, poverty, etc. However, the great works of man have been lost--architectural, scientific, philosophical, literary, etc.--and human beings have basically become children, each one dressing, looking, and acting the same.

[vombatiformes · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

I read this for the first time (somehow!) in a college class I had on literature and themes of evolution in literature, and even though I was familiar with the creatures in the story I wasn't familiar with the actual plot. I was kind of resistant to science fiction as a genre at the time, so I was surprised when I enjoyed it so much. I wound up writing my final paper for the class on this book and themes of social class!The Time Machine is about a scientist who presents his newest invention to his colleagues -- a machine that can actually (as the title suggests) move someone within the "dimension of time", and the scientist demonstrates that by using it for the first time to go far into the future during a time when man has evolved to become two distinct races of human. Things seem idyllic on the surface, but everything is not as it seems as the scientist quickly finds out. This is an exciting story that is both thought provoking and a little terrifying. There is a lot of really great imagery and ideas and it's easy to see why this is considered a classic.

[stbalbach_1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

This is a review of the audibook "The Alien Voices Presents: The Time Machine (Alien Voices)"An original script, full-cast, full-production, original score, radio adaptation. If there was an audio-book "Hollywood", this is what it would sound like. Leonard Nimoy stars as the time traveler. It is helpful that Nimoy's reputation as a space faring time traveler gives the story an extra degree of verisimilitude. Although many of the finer details from Well's original story are lost in this abbreviated version, for the most part it sticks to the original plot and is highly entertaining and makes for a wonderful listening experience. Recommended.

[wisewoman_1 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells is a fascinating story of one man's excursion into the distant future. Called only "the Time Traveller" by our unnamed narrator, this man witnesses the seeming paradise which our Earth has become. Rich, lush, and without the natural evils we grapple with, nevertheless this Edenic world has a dark side. The human race has evolved into two distinct groups, the Eloi and the Morlocks. The Eloi are surface-dwellers, diminutive, beautiful, and weak — victims of their own ingenuity, which removed all need for invention and intelligence. The Morlocks, dwelling underground, are much more sinister, and eventually the Time Traveller discovers the truth. They are cannibals, preying upon the Eloi when darkness falls. It is fascinating to see how Wells explores the problems of capitalism and labor, the upper classes and the worker toiling for the ease of others. The divide is brought into the physical realm, with the Eloi on top and the Morlocks being banished to the subterranean regions, where society tends to put its less ornamental, more utilitarian functions. Indeed, the Time Traveller even calls the Eloi and Morlocks the Haves and the Have-nots. The warning is clear: if they continue to live in indolence and ease, the upper classes will become weak and helpless, a prey for the lower classes who are strengthened (though also made brutish) by the work imposed upon them. I didn't know quite what to think of this book. Wells refers to Darwin with respect, but he takes a grimmer view of man's evolutionary "progress," seeing the seeds of self-destruction in our very struggle to tame the natural world. If we have nothing left to strive and work for, will not our natural abilities atrophy and eventually abandon us completely? In Wells' vision of the future, our old problems of societal inequities have not been solved, though we have solved the physical ills of our world. We have become either helpless of brutish. It seems that despite his evolutionary leanings, Wells held an accurate view of human nature. So this is The Time Machine, the pioneering work in the genre of time-travel fiction. An interesting read, but not a comfortable one, and thankfully rather short. At least I finally understand why jokes about time travel often reference crystals.

[aspirit-1 · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

I really wanted to like this book but had to force myself to finish it out of a feeling of obligation. How can I consider myself a science fiction fan without having read Wells' The Time Machine?

My biggest issue with the story is that the only moments that felt realistic were within the narrator's home, in which too much was spent trying to hype up the time adventure.

Perhaps I would have enjoyed it more 15 years earlier in my own timeline.

[tess_schoolmarm · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

This is a novella about a time-traveller who firstly embarks to about 8270 AD (?) to the world of flesh eating Morlocks and peace-loving Eloi. I liked this book much better than The War of the Worlds as I think it has withstood the test of time a little better. I loved the vocabulary of Wells, much larger than today's writers and I even had to look up a few words to add to my word journal. Sci-fi is really not my genre at all (I usually despise it), but due to the writing and the short length of this book, it kept by rapt attention and I read it in one sitting. 88 pages

[ireadthereforeiam · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

The main man holds court in his parlour in late 1800s England with a story of his incredible travels through time. His chums are advised to listen carefully and to not interrupt. The story begins with conversation on the possibility of time travel itself, and continues with the event having happened. Time travel, in this case, means going forward a lot of centuries to an improbably futuristic year of 800,000 and something. Humans have evolved into two separate sub-species, one placid pleasant lot living above ground and a light-hating flesh-ripping lot who dwell in subterranean darkness. The time machine itself goes AWOL and our man is understandably in a panic about getting it, and himself, back. A rollicking and gripping story which surprised and delighted me.

[joririchardson · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

It took me quite awhile to really get interested in this book, but once I did I liked it. While I think it is not one of H.G. Wells' best, I always like his writing and originality. However, I have to say that I would rather read something by Jules Verne or C.S. Lewis in terms of science fiction than this one.Still, an interesting book woven through with theories on Darwinism, the future, and technology. Great book for thinking!

[ca8bookwyrm · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Another classic that I took too long to read...

I enjoyed this, but am glad (I think) that I read it after seeing the movie. The movie was nothing like this, and I could read the book and be pleasantly surprised at the differences, rather than watching the movie after knowing the book and being incredibly disappointed.

It is a product of its era, however, and does read in the literary fashion that is common in other classics. If you like that style - as I do, when I'm in the mood for it - then this is a good book to read.

[kslade-1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Great old time travel story.

[sjh4255 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

A classic book that is still very relevant in todays world. This is a book of a time traveller who travels to the very distant future, and sees what humans evolve into. The result is a comparison to todays society and the differences between the classes to the extreme level. This is a short read, but definitely a recommended book. Mr Wells does a great job in making this book brief on the cultures and technology of the late 1800s so that it can still be read today without difficulty in relating to the main characters story.

[neil_luvs_books · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

This was somewhat disappointing. I have been wanting to read this book for decades and finally this week decided to pull it off the shelf and read it. I read Wells’ The Invisible Man and The War Of The Worlds way back when I was in grade school and remember being enthralled by TWOTW but finding TIM a little tedious. TTM was not tedious but not great as I was expecting it to be. I think the problem is two-fold. One, the writing style is from the 19th C and so not as captivating as contemporary writing. Second, I think I know the story too well from films that are based upon it that there was nothing new while I was reading - I knew what was going to happen before I turned the page. Which is unfortunate. I wonder if for these older classics they now need to be read while one is young before reading derivative material dims their impact. If I try to imagine what it must have been like to read this when first released at the turn of the last century, it must have been great. But reading now in my 5th decade in the 21st C, not so much.

[karlstar_1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

The time machine is still a scifi classic. While you have to take a leap of faith with regards to the science and technology, the story itself is fascinating. Are our descendants really destined to become morlocks?

[anniemod · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I was absolutely sure I had read this novel - it is an early classic, the first time travel story (which is one of my favorite genres) and yet it did not feel familiar when I read it. It is possible that I had read it either so early in my life that most of the story had disappeared from my head or that it was an abridgement. In either case, a planned reread turned into reading a new novel that I enjoyed very much. The story is simple - or at least appears to be - a guy invents a time machine, goes in the future and comes to tell his friends what he saw there. That part as novel as it was for the end of the 19th century is a known trope these days. And as much as that is an important development for the genre, it is also the part where Wells, in his normal style, does a lot of hand-waving so he can get to the real story - the story of the Earth in the future. I cannot not wonder what would have Verne done with this story -- I suspect that he would have turned it into a scientific novel with very little real future history - but then these were the styles of the two fathers of Science Fiction. But back to the story -- our traveler ends up in the year 802,701 and finds an idyllic world there - the sun is shining, people spend their time in leisure and pleasure. But something does not look right - he expected to see highly technological society and found a garden, almost like the garden of Eden - which very soon turns out to be everything but. Humanity had managed to do into two different species - one on the surface, living in leisure and one under the ground, supporting them. And somewhere along the long millennia, things had gone horribly wrong and the underworld people, the Morlocks, are not something that the traveler wants to believe the humanity can devolve into. The social commentary on this future world is writing itself - even in the parts that Wells does not mention. The traveler finds and loses a companion - despite the differences, the people above the ground are still people and he can flirt with Weena easily enough. And that opens other questions - because if we follow the logic, the people still in the open are the ones that caused the separation and exploited everyone else and yet... they seem to have kept their humanity - in some ways anyway. The Time Traveler does not stop there - he pushes ever further along. The next stop is more than distressing (but at least there are still some creatures that seem to be people) and the last one is the end of the world -- it a tide-locked world, humans are all gone (well... unless we somehow ended up in the water). The part with the second stop was cut from the first publication of the novel as a whole - although noone knows if it was by design or simply a mistake. I find the novel a lot more powerful because of it. And the end of the novel is as mysterious as the whole story - having told the story our traveler goes away again - and his friend is still waiting for him. He speculates on where he may be... but it is left to the reader to decide if he went away for love or for an adventure. And if someone does not believe the story, there are those two flowers that do not exist in our world -- the symbols of love and friendship and the proof if one needs one. There are a few eyebrow raising moments (who he compares the Eloi (the above ground people) to for example) but because the novel is mostly set in the future and the characters in the here and there are more of archetypes than people, the novel actually does not sound dated or worse. And considering when it was written, it sound more modern than a lot of novels written 50 years later. The edition I read had two introduction - one by George Zebrowski and one by Brian Aldiss (printed as an Afterword). Both are very good and neither should be read by someone who had not read the novel. One of those days someone will figure out how to write an introduction that does not spoil the complete novel...

[mike__m · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I've read this several times over the years, and come back to it now and then. Like all of Wells's famous tales, the "science fiction" is really just an excuse to create a space to explore his socio-political ideas. The Time machine works well for his purpose, and remains a favorite.For anyone who hasn't yet read this, and is wondering if they'd want to read it, just consider that some people like fiction written more than a century ago, and some people don't. If you like your science fiction with airbrushed covers showing people in tight-fitting space suits wielding futuristic weapons in heroic poses, you might prefer to pass this one by. If you're OK with fiction employing Nineteenth Century conventions, check it out.I chose to listen to the story this time because Derek Jacobi was reading. He didn't disappoint.