First novel by H. G. Wells, ‘The Time Machine’ was published in book form in 1895. The novel is considered one of the earliest works of science fiction and the progenitor of the “time travel” subgenre.
‘The Time Machine’ is a “scientific romance” that inverts the nineteenth-century belief in evolution as progress. The story follows a Victorian scientist, who claims that he has invented a device that enables him to travel through time, and has visited the future, arriving in the year 802, 701 in what had once been London. There, he finds the future race, or, more accurately, races, because the human species has “evolved” into two distinct forms…