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The Time Machine (1895) sends an unnamed Victorian inventor forward through time on a machine of his own design. In the far future of 802,701 he finds humanity split into two species — the small, childlike Eloi who live in the sun and the pale subterranean Morlocks who feed on them — and pushes further still to witness the slow extinction of all life on Earth. Wells's first novel, the book that named the concept and shaped a century of science fiction.
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