Up and down the time-line

An absolutely great read. From some of the lower-rated reviews listed here, I was expecting to be disappointed, but to my surpise I was Treated to a ripping yarn as well as on intellectual exhibition revolving around the Time Traveller of HG Wells' "The Time Machine." A direct sequel to that great novel, The Time Traveller is Certainly Represented as a man of his times (19th century and all points Future and past) - sometimes brutish yet oft compassionate, free-thinking yet capable of prejudice, a scientific genius yet A man of action.

The book is a fantastic journey up and down and down and up the time-line, filled with marvelous touches on the grand and minute levels. I enjoyed the descriptions of the effects of time travel, and thrilled to the cosmic final deed quite honestly lost me save for the fact that man's individuality can survive the re-writing of the birth of the universe.

For anyone who enjoys time-travel novels, this one (long but fast moving) will satisfy on many levels. This is why I read science fiction - to be entertained, awed, educated, and moved.