While the protagonist believes Weena to be a girl and treats her as such, he admits that he is not certain what her gender actually is.

Ambiguous Gender: The Eloi are prepubescent both mentally and physically, with men looking almost identical to women.

įor the Gamebooks series, see Time Machine Series. You can also download the full text at Project Gutenberg. The link in the first sentence will provide you with an online version of this classic (now in the Public Domain). It has been filmed four times (1949, 1960, 19) as well as a loose animated adaptation also from 2002, and there are many references to it in subsequent Time Travel stories. There also has been an authorized sequel by Stephen Baxter released, called The Time Ships. The story's vision of the future reflects Wells's strong socialist beliefs. A few days later, he sets off again, and never returns.

The Time Traveller later mentions that this explanation may be wrong, but never gives an alternative.Īfter a succession of adventures, the Time Traveller returns to his machine, takes a short trip To the Future, and Beyond when the sun itself is dying, then returns to the present day, where he tells his story. The parasitic rich have degenerated into the effete Eloi while the working classes, treated like beasts, have become just that. The Time Traveller decides this is the inevitable result of class struggle. Beneath the Earth dwell Morlocks, bestial humanoids who prey on the Eloi. Once he's had enough time to muse on how they are the inevitable product of human evolution (for now humanity has technology, it no longer needs intelligence) he discovers that the Eloi's apparent Sugar Bowl Utopia is closer to a crapsaccharine Dystopia. The first thing he found there was the Eloi, peaceful child-like humanoids living an idyllic life. The next week, the Time Traveller appears, much the worse for wear, saying he has been to the year AD 802,701. The story begins in Victorian London with the nameless narrator talking to his equally nameless friends, among them the Time Traveller, who casually describes his invention, and gives the assembled friends a demonstration. Wells had his protagonist invent an actual time machine and travel into the far future.

Where most predecessors had used visions to achieve the time travel, and only sent their protagonists 20 Minutes into the Future, H. It was predated by Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau's El anacronópete, published in 1887, as well as by Wells's own The Chronic Argonauts, published in 1888. The Time Machine: An Invention is a classic tale of Time Travel, published in 1895, and one of the first to use a scientific mechanism to achieve it.

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