The Time Machine
In H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, why does the author spend most of Chapter 1 exploring the scientific aspects of time travel?
In H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, why does the author spend most of Chapter 1 exploring the scientific aspects of time travel?
Wells, as an amateur scientist, had built an actual time machine.
Wells, as a writer, liked to describe talky dinner parties.
Wells, as a writer, could not figure out a more interesting beginning.
Wells, as a writer, wanted to make time travel seem plausible to his readers.