The Time Machine

One machine. Infinite futures. One journey that changed everything. The Time Machine is the novel that launched a genre. In this visionary tale, H. G. Wells introduces the Time Traveller—a brilliant inventor who journeys 800,000 years into the future and witnesses the haunting fate of humanity in the form of the gentle Eloi and the sinister Morlocks. Blending social critique with scientific imagination, Wells explores class division, technological power, and the terrifying consequences of progress. It remains one of the most enduring and thought-provoking works in speculative fiction.