" Short and super. Seems like Wells tried to invoke some poorly thought out metaphors about Communism or socialism, and class warfare at some points, which were severely ill-placed, disrupting, and made absolutely no sense when going 800,000 years into the future. He intelligently abandoned these failures for idealistic-crusades when he seemed to realize the plot itself was strong enough to hold itself up without tacky metaphors and childish, preaching symbolism. Still, though, there seems to be no worse setting in which one could try to explore the issues of class hierarchy, or socialism than a world 800,000 years in the future (read, 8,000 centuries, or 800 millennia), in which humanity as we know it is non-existent. This is like using modern social hierarchies to study the behaviors and practices of ancient, prehistoric neanderthals. Clearly, this would be stupid. Really, no more needs to be said to illustrate just how stupid this would be. But as the first H.G. Wells book I've ever read, I found this imaginative, very well written, and creative enough to propel me to read his other writings. So long as he doesn't fall into the common fallacy of believing that literature exists as a vehicle for metaphor and tireless preaching, I shall probably enjoy his imagination and speculation, so long as he writes it strong enough to stand on its own without the crutch of shallow second meaning or metaphor. "
— BukkRogerrs, 1/14/2014