The Time Machine vs Triplanetary: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Scientists, Space Warfare, Science Fiction, Fiction
The Time Machine
The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701: the world has been…
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Triplanetary
Lensman series, Book 1 of 7 Even back before the first bits of this story hit the newsstands, the folks who published it in Amazing Stories (January through April, 1934) knew they were on to something special. "We are…
The verdict
- Readers rate The Time Machine highest: The Time Machine 3.9 · Triplanetary 3.7.
- The Time Machine is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 5 for Triplanetary.
- The Time Machine has the widest readership — 579364 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| The Time Machine | Triplanetary | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.9 (579364) | 3.7 (7678) |
| Hardcover | 3.8 (1493) | 3.1 (11) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (1863) | 4.0 (7) |
| LiveLib | 4.3 (5) | — |
Reception
| The Time Machine | Triplanetary | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 579364 | 7678 |
| Editions | 1146 | 67 |
| Citations | 34 | — |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 406157 | 5461 |
| Reading it now | 20904 | 885 |
| Written reviews | 20618 | 572 |
| Wikipedia attention | 12134 | 701 |
| Pages | 119 | 272 |