He built a machine to travel through time. What he found on the other end changed everything he believed about progress.
An unnamed inventor known only as the Time Traveller unveils his most astonishing creation: a machine that carries him forward past the year 802,701, into a world of gentle, childlike Eloi living in ruined pastoral splendor above ground — and the pale, subterranean Morlocks who prey on them from below. As the Time Traveller pieces together how humanity split into these two haunted species, he pushes even further, to the last dying light of a cooling, nearly lifeless Earth.
H. G. Wells's The Time Machine invented an entire genre with a single, audacious idea — and remains one of the most unsettling visions of deep time and human fate ever written.
- The novel that gave science fiction the time machine itself
- A haunting meditation on class, evolution, and the far future
- The essential starting point for over a century of time-travel fiction
Step into the machine. There's no telling what kind of future is waiting.
