Illustrated Classic Editions for Children #4530
The Time Machine
If you are a misguided completest, you may find yourself drawn to reading the new Chapter
13 in Bogart’s adaptation in which the Traveller finds himself in an authoritarian 22nd
century populated by 1950s cape-wearing, B-movie characters. Do so if you must, but try
to resist the urge to read any of the rest of Bogart’s adaptation for pre-teens, and
whatever else you do, don’t let the book fall into the hands of your
eight-to-twelve-year-old.
The first edition was released in 1983, possibly in multiple
formats, although I’ve never spotted what I believe was the first edition published by
Waldman Publishing in 1983; multiple editions, including a Chinese translation, have
appeared since.
A figure in a silver cape and tights, with gloves to match, was saying, “That’s
enough Apathy-Gas, Kolar. There’s only one passenger.’