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The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

1895 · Science fiction · Novel

Open Library OL52267W

A Victorian inventor rides his machine to a future in which humanity has split. Wells’s novella is a social argument dressed as a traveler’s report.

About the author

Wells used impossible machines to write about class, empire, and the future as a place we might not like. The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds are the pair on this shelf. More of this shelf for H. G. Wells.

Where to read it

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