About the Author
Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) wrote the science fiction classics The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and The War of the Worlds, and has often been heralded as a father of modern science fiction.
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This edition of The Time Machine includes an Introduction, Biographical Note, and Afterword by James Gunn.
The time? 802,701 A.D.
The place? An Earth stranger than you can imagine.
The people? A pretty, childlike race, the Eloi-and their distant cousins, the Morlocks: disgusting, hairy creatures who live in caves and feed on the flesh of-what?
Enter the Time Traveller, who has hurtled almost a million years into the future. After the Morlocks steal his machine he may be trapped there...and at their mercy.
April 1, 2007