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The Time Machine by H.G. Wells is a classic science fiction novel that takes readers on a thrilling journey through time. As the Time Traveller explores the future, he encounters dystopian societies and grapples with the profound implications of human evolution.

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English novelist, historian and science writer Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) abandoned teaching and launched his literary career with a series of highly successful science-fiction novels. The Time Machine was the first of a number of these imaginative literary inventions... Read Full Overview

There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time.

The Original 1895 Classic

When an English Scientist, known only as the Time Traveller, invents a machine that can travel... Read Full Overview

When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700--and everything had changed. In this unfamiliar, utopian age creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony. The Time Traveller thought he could study... Read Full Overview

H.G. Wells, a pioneer in the science fiction genre, produced awesomely imaginative novels whose technologies seem impossibly sophisticated for a writer living in an era before automobiles and the widespread application of electricity. In his work The Time Machine, Wells' Time... Read Full Overview

In his quest to discover what the future holds for mankind, the Time Traveler creates an ingenious machine-- a Time Machine that zips past sunsets, lands, oceans and centuries in the bat of an eyelid. However, instead of making pathbreaking discoveries, the Time Traveler... Read Full Overview

After years of experimentation, a Victorian inventor constructs a machine to travel through time. He demonstrates a miniature working model to his friends and then shows them the actual Time Machine, but they do not believe him. One day he climbs upon the machine and vanishes... Read Full Overview

Wells's genre-defining novel of time travel

Intrigued by the possibilities of time travel as a student and inspired as a journalist by the great scientific advances of the Victorian Age, Wells drew on his own scientific publications--on evolution, degeneration, species extinction, geologic time, and biology--in writing... Read Full Overview

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"In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me back . . . You can scarce imagine how nauseatingly inhuman they looked... Read Full Overview

When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700--and everything had changed. In this unfamiliar, utopian age creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony. The Time Traveller thought he could study... Read Full Overview

There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time. The Original 1895 Classic. H.G. Wells has been called the father of science fiction. This special edition includes original art depicting this groundbreaking novel. The Time Machine... Read Full Overview

"A Pioneering Foray into Science Fiction" -The New Yorker

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... Read Full Overview

The revolutionary novel that catapulted readers into the future, from the father of science fiction, H.G. Wells. "I've had a most amazing time...." So begins the Time Traveller's astonishing firsthand account of his journey eight hundred thousand years beyond his own era--and... Read Full Overview