A Victorian inventor travels to the year 802,701 and finds humanity split into the childlike Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks. The novel that launched modern time-travel fiction.
Books that mention The Time Machine (4)
The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson: “In Wells's The Time Machine, published in 1895, a traveler to the future discovers that humans have evolved into two species, a leisure class of Eloi and a working class of Morlocks.”
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking: “Wells in The Time Machine explored these possibilities as have countless other writers of science fiction.”
It by Stephen King: “Wells's The Time Machine the year before, first the Classics Comics version and then the whole book.”
Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin: “The Time Machine was published in 1895, and has never been out of print.”