Joel Wall’s Reviews > The Time Machine & Other Works > Status Update

'When the Sleeper Wakes' - a fascinating conception of the future with a great Socialist revolutionary element, but it is harshly let down by Wells' horrendously racist views.

'The Time Machine' - I forgot how much I enjoy these victorian style stories where the action is retold through another character. Some really interesting ideas, although it suffers, like many utopian novels, with a problematic relationship between the (often middle aged, male) time traveller, and whatever young, naively innocent girl he stumbles upon.