The Time Machine

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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Sep 9, 2018 - Fiction - 124 pages
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposely and selectively forwards or backwards in time. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle. Is a critique of utopian ideas, set in the year 802701, in which the human race is divided into two groups, the subterranean workers, the Morlocks, and the decadent Eloi. It sets a pattern for science-fiction to critique extreme developments of class, seen later in works from Fritz Lang's film Metropolis (1927) to Orwell's 1984 (1949), though arguably Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) had established the idea with the yahoos and the houyhnhnms.

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