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'Time Machine' is ho-hum adaptation of Wells classic

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From: Indianapolis Recorder
Date: 20020315
Author:Williams, Kam

Williams, Kam
Indianapolis Recorder
03-15-2002
Prolific utopian H.G. Wells (1866-1946), considered by many to be the
father of science fiction, authored some 100 books over the course of his
celebrated career. Heavily influenced by Jules Verne, this prophetic
dreamer's most memorable pieces of prose included such classics as The War
of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon and The Time
Machine.

The Time Machine, written in 1895, is a futuristic adventure about a
Victorian tinkerer, known only as the Time Traveler, who creates a brass
contraption which catapults him ahead to the ...

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