The volume highlights the startling singularity of Wells's text as well as its literary genealogy out of a variety of modes and genres. It provides an archeology of the text on the one hand, and on the other an exploration of how this text continues to project itself into the future as an influential textual artifact. The essays will be useful to anyone studying or teaching The Time Machine, offering as they do a range of critical approaches from Wells scholars, as well as a contribution from science fiction author Brian Aldiss. * Utopian Studies * This volume is must reading for anyone interested in Wells or the development of science fiction in general. * Virginia Quarterly Review *