The Time Machine

The Time Machine is a science fiction novel written by Herbert George Wells and first published in 1895.

In the book The Time Machine, an inventor known only as the Time Traveller builds a machine that carries him forward to the year 802,701, where he meets what has become of humanity.

In said future, the scientist discovers that humanity has become two races, the childish Eloi and the monstrous Morlocks. The machine then disappears, and he has to survive among the Morlocks long enough to get it back and return to his own time.

Wells drew on Darwin's theory of evolution and on the class divisions of his own century: the Eloi and the Morlocks are what he imagined the leisured and the labouring classes might become. The result is a bleak future in which technological progress has not prevented social degeneration.