The Time Machine

　　時間旅行者坐上了能縱橫馳騁於過去及未來的新奇飛行機器，進行一趟跨越時空的「回到未來」旅程。

　　在驚心動魄的未世時空裡，他發現，世界一片荒蕪，人類已經滅絕，過去那些掌控地球的剝削者，如今退化墮落為脆弱的生物，喪失了勞動與防衛的能力，遭到無情的報復……

　　本書中譯本<<時光機器：穿梭時空，回到未來>>由普天出版社出版    

　　’He succeeds in placing before the reader a vision of the world in cosmic time’ Norman Nicholson
The Time Traveller knew that Time was only a kind of Space. The fantastic story of his adventures in a machine which could travel in any direction of Space and Time has captured the imagination of millions.

　　H. G. Wells, one of the giants of twentieth-century literature, in this brilliant forerunner of today’s SF did something which had never been done before and which has never been done since with the same vitality and bright inventiveness. With an introduction by Mark Bould.

　　Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautifully bound gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure.

作者簡介

科幻小說界的莎士比亞──赫伯特．喬治．威爾斯

　　．Herbert George Wells是達爾文進化論和柏拉圖理想國的綜合體，在他的科幻小說中，人類的未來和科學的發展是密不可分的。進化觀點是他的寫作基礎，理想國思想則賦予了作品豐厚的內涵。

　　．Herbert George Wells盡情伸展想像力的翅膀，穿梭宇宙的空間與時間，馳騁人類世界的過去和未來，運用廣博的自然科學知識描繪地球未來的生活面貌，獨特的觀點使得故事情節緊張刺激、錯綜離奇……

　　．Herbert George Wells被譽為「科幻小說界的莎士比亞」、「科幻小說之父」，作品既深富文學價值、娛樂作用，又兼具教育意義，既介紹科技知識及其偉大貢獻，也透過科學寓言譴責人類的種種荒謬和醜陋。

　　《時光機器》是英國著名小說家赫伯特．喬治．威爾斯於1895年發表的一部科幻小說，不少評論家將這本書的出版譽為「科幻小說誕生元年」。

　　書中提出了「時間旅行」的概念，故事主角時間旅行者乘坐著時光機器，穿梭於未來和過去之間，看到了各種怪異現象，發現人類未來的世界一片荒蕪、死寂、殘破，而這種悲慘際遇竟是人類自己造成的……

　　《時光機器》是部膾炙人口的經典科幻小說，曾被改編成各式戲劇，也兩度改編成同名電影，不少「穿梭時空，回到未來」的影視作品，都是從「時光機器」的概念加以延伸。

　　Herbert George Wells, the son of a shopkeeper and a lady's maid, was born in Kent in 1866. A bookish child, his education was interrupted when he served a brief and gruelling apprenticeship to a draper. But Wells then went on to study biology under the great T. H. Huxley, before finding instant literary success in 1895 with the publication of his first 'scientific romance', The Time Machine. This was followed in quick succession by The Island of Dr Moreau, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds. A visionary and lifelong socialist, Wells also wrote extensively on social issues, history and science. He died in 1946.