The Time Machine is considered the originator of time travel subgenre. Published in 1895, it was a debut novel of Wells. He advanced his social and political ideas in this class fable or scientific parable. The story follows a Victorian scientist claiming that he has invented a device that enables him to travel through time, and has visited the future. There, he finds the future races. The human species has “evolved” into two distinct forms. Above ground live the Eloi, a gentle, fairy like, childish creatures, whose existence appears to be free of struggle. Another race, the Morlocks are underground dwellers who, once subservient, now prey on the defenseless Eloi. By setting the action nearly a million years in the future, Wells illustrated the Darwinian model of evolution by natural selection, “fast-forwarding” through the slow process of changes to species, the physical world, and the solar system.
