The Time Machine

Front Cover
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017 - Fiction - 106 pages
When a group of friends gather for a dinner party, things get interesting when the host, a scientist, describes his theories on time and space. He explains that he believes time is in the fourth dimension and that it could be traveled forward and backward. He promptly introduces his newest creation, a small time machine, and makes it travel into time. The guests, mostly thinking it's sleight of hand, are in disbelief, but then he shows them a larger version of the machine which he says will allow him to travel through time. At his next dinner party the following week, the host who is called The Time Traveler, shows up late and disheveled. Once he cleans up and eats, they all retreat to the smoking room here he expounds on what happened on his recent time travels that had taken him forward in time more than 800,000 years. He finds that humanity has evolved into two classes: the peaceful, simple, and lazy Eloi, and the predatory working-class Morlocks. After staying with and learning much about the Eloi, and narrowly escaping the Merlocks, he gets back to his time machine and travels even further into the future before finally returning to his home and sharing the story with his friends.

Other editions - View all

About the author (2017)

H.G. Wells, was born in 1866 as Herbert George Wells, in Kent County, England. A visionary author known mostly for his science fiction novels, Wells wrote many classics such as The Time Machine, The war of the Worlds, and The Invisible Man. He was generally credited with the conceptualization of purposeful vehicular time travel using a "Time Machine". H.G. Wells short story titled "The Chronic Argonauts", that was published in his college newspaper, was the foundation of "The Time Machine", the story that launched his science fiction writing career.

Bibliographic information