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The Time Machine
About this work
The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701: the world has been transformed by a society living in apparent harmony and bliss, but as the Traveler stays in the future he discovers a hidden barbaric and depraved subterranean class. Wells's transparent commentary on the capitalist society was an instant bestseller and launched the time-travel genre.
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Subjects
- Self-experimentation in medicine in fiction
- Fiction
- Time travel in fiction
- Dystopias in fiction
- Literature
- Scientists
- Classic Literature
- Open Library Staff Picks
- Scientists in fiction
- Space warfare
- Self-experimentation in medicine
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