![]() ![]() ![]() The inventor of the time machine 'thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilisation only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end’ (Epilogue). The Time Machine (1895), his first major work of science fiction, is an anti-utopian text with an anti-utopian hero. Wells is prominent both as a pioneer of science fiction and as a modern utopian, the answer he gave to this question, both at the beginning and at, the end of his life was a resounding 'no’. Does this mean that the aesthetics of science fiction and the aesthetics of utopia are two sides of the same problem ? Though H.G. ![]() Utopia and science fiction, it is frequently argued, are closely allied. ![]()
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