![]() ![]() It doesn't surprise us that this 1980 sequel, written as it was by director George Pal himself (in collaboration with screenwriter Joe Morhaim), reproduces the machine as visualised in the movie. It's a perennial problem with film adaptation, and cover artists have the choice of either collaborating with this visual hegemony or challenging it. ![]() ![]() The success of the 1960 movie adaptation, directed by George Pal, meant that, for many readers, visual imagery from the film tended to overwrite the pictures generated by their own imaginations. ![]() Given the exotic wonders the later sections of the tale contain, it's puzzling that the publishers would go for something so mundane. This illustrates the very beginning of the first chapter, where the time traveller is explaining his invention to his friends. Since then it has been reprinted in hundreds of different formats, and a wide range of designers and artists have faced the task of covering the story. Of course, when William Heinemann took the project on they had no idea it was going to prove as enduring, and their original cover, with a low-key line drawing (by Ben Hardy) of the ‘sphinx’ Wells's time traveller encounters in the year 802,701 could hardly be more low-key. H G Wells's first published novel, The Time Machine (1895), effectively invented the time-travel genre, and remains one of the most famous of all science fiction titles. ![]()
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