The Time Machine
An inventor travels to the future and finds a humanity split in two.
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Year
- 1895
- Language
- English
The first great time travel novel, and a social parable dressed as science fiction.
About the book
The Time Traveller arrives in the year 802,701 and meets the Eloi and the Morlocks. The explanation he gives for their society is a warning.
Why read it
Because it is short and quick, and its ideas still feed literature and film.