<\/a>A chilling, prophetic take on mankind’s possible future, The Time Machine sees a Victorian scientist propelled into the year AD 802,701, where he is delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty and contentment in the form of the eloi, an elfin species descended from man. But he soon realizes that they are simply remnats of a once-great culture – now weak and living in terror of the sinister Morlocks lurking in the deep tunnels, who threaten his very return. H.G. Wells defined much of modern science fiction with this 1895 tale of time travel, which questions humanity, society, and our place on Earth.<\/p>\n

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