H. G. Wells · 1895 · Short Story
Setting: Victorian England / far future (802,701 AD) / deep future (heat death)
Series: H. G. Wells' Time Machine Universe
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.
Source: OpenLibrary
Tags: Self-experimentation in medicine in fictionFictionTime travel in fictionDystopias in fictionLiteratureScientistsClassic LiteratureOpen Library Staff PicksScientists in fictionSpace warfare
isfdb_id: 25149
openlibrary_id: OL52267W
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