H. G. Wells 1 hr 45 min read

A Victorian inventor builds a machine that carries him into the far future, to the year 802,701 and the gentle Eloi, the sinister Morlocks, and at last the dying end of the Earth itself.

H. G. Wells's 1895 novel is the foundational classic of time-travel fiction. Visionary, chilling, immortal. Read it for the book that gave the world the very idea of a time machine, a haunting journey down the corridors of deep time, a dark parable of class and evolution, and one of the greatest scientific romances ever written.

In its time

Published in 1895, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

1 hr 45 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).