Ep 352 - The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

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🗓️ 15 April 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Ironically, running out of time to read George Eliot's Middlemarch gave us the time to get to H.G. Wells' foundational sci-fi novella The Time Machine, in which he invents the very concept (or at least the modern nomenclature) of a time machine. Wells' protagonist is, surprisingly enough, able to make guesses about sentient life from 800,000 years in the future that just happen to align with his present-day worldview.

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0:00.0	This is a headgun podcast.
0:06.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.3	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.5	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Overdoots a podcast about the books you've been meaning to
0:46.0	read.
0:47.0	My name is Craig.
0:48.0	My name is Andrew.
0:49.0	And we gotta get into it today real fast, fast double time because it's Game of Thrones
0:56.6	Day, y'all.
0:57.6	And it's Game of Thrones is back the International Hit TV show.
1:00.7	I saw some stat that it has been 595 days since the most recent episode of Game of Thrones.
1:07.7	I don't understand how that's possible.
1:09.3	I don't either.
1:10.8	Which, and it's funny that we're talking about the nature of time because this week for
1:15.4	the book podcast that we do where one of us reads a book that we've never read before
1:18.6	and then tells the other person about it is about the time machine by HG Wells.
1:23.9	It is funny because I also think that if we had a time machine, perhaps we'd be talking
1:28.9	about middle March, which we had hoped to talk about this week.
1:34.9	We did change it.
1:35.9	Yes.
1:36.9	I feel like we haven't done a scheduled change like that in a while, but I just, we were
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