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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Stories About Time Travel on a Limited Scale
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:46:07 -0400
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On 6/13/2025 11:38 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:50:44 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"
> <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/06/2025 10.24, Paul S Person wrote:
>>> On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:32:26 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"
>>> <michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 09/06/2025 19.06, Tony Nance wrote:
>>
>>>>> The Time Machine - Wells
>>>>
>>>> This is the second classic Wells you've recently mentioned (the other one
>>>> was _The War of the Worlds_), neither of which I've read. (I have seen the
>>>> George Pal interpretations of both, of course.) I need to fix this.
>>>
>>> Yes. You do.
>>
>>
>>> Pal's version of /The Time Machine/ is -- awful. No, seriously, read
>>> the book and forget the film, if you can. (The main problem is that it
>>> is obsessed with Nuclear War which, of course, the book knows nothing
>>> of.)
>>
>> Nuclear war? Wells didn't even know about the Blitz when he wrote it, or
>> even WWI.
> 
> Thanks for confirming my point.
> 
> I didn't notice this when I saw it as a child, but the Eloi are lured
> into the Morloch domain /in the movie/ by the sound of an air raid
> siren and the opening of an air raid shelter's doors -- a siren we
> heard and a shelter we saw earlier in the film.
> 
> The problem for me here isn't that they changed the book, the problem
> is that the changes are modern-day (well, "modern" when the film was
> made) concerns.
> 
> Maltin, who likes the film, calls it a "cartoon version" of the book.

HG Wells wrote of atomic bombs all the way back in 1914, in "The World
Set Free". Of course, he got them wrong, but people were already seeing
the potential energy in the atom.

pt