Машина времени. Человек-невидимка _ The Time Machine. Invisible Man

Romany Gerberta Uellsa ne soderzhat segodnyashnikh realiy - kom'yuterov, kosmicheskikh chelnokov i andronnykh kollayderov, odnako chitayutsya s neoslabevayushchim interesom i nikogda ne satellitet s knizhnykh polok.

"Mashina vremeni" (1895 g.) - pervoye krupnoye nauchno-fantasticheskoye proizvedeniye, v kotorom geroy sovershayet puteshestviye vo vremeni. Nekotoryye uchenyye govoryat, chto v etom romane Uells dazhe predvoskhitil Eynshteyna, sformulirovavshego theoreticalyu otnositel'nosti spustya desyat' let. A v "Cheloveke-nevidimke" (1897 g.) physics isobretayet

apparat, sposobnyy sdelat' cheloveka nevidimym. Chto by ni yavlyalos' ob"yektom oblicheniya v uellsovskikh romanakh - kozni podzemnykh rabov-morlokov, bezdeystviye bogachey-eloyev ili illyuziya vsemogushchestva i beznakazannosti samonadeyannogo uchenogo, -za 100 s lishnim let, proshedshikh so dnya pervoy publikat sii "Mashiny vremeni" i "Cheloveka -nevidimki", chelovecheskiye poroki i slabosti ne sil'no izmenilis'.