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The Time Machine

By H. G. Wells

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Cover: The Old Temple by Hubert Robert (1733–1808), 1787/88 · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0

The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel intentionally and selectively forward or backward through time. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: Introduction
  2. 2: The Machine
  3. 3: The Time Traveller Returns
  4. 4: Time Travelling
  5. 5: In the Golden Age
  6. 6: The Sunset of Mankind
  7. 7: A Sudden Shock
  8. 8: Explanation
  9. 9: The Morlocks
  10. 10: When Night Came
  11. 11: The Palace of Green Porcelain
  12. 12: In the Darkness
  13. 13: The Trap of the White Sphinx
  14. 14: The Further Vision
  15. 15: The Time Traveller’s Return
  16. 16: After the Story