Originally published in 1895, H. G. Wells’ unequivocallyvisionary tale popularized the concept of period travel. Occur VictorianEngland, it tells the story of the scientist and gentleman inventor who builds amachine capable of moving a person through period, which he calls thefourth dimensions. Propelling himself to the year 802,701, the man is certainly delightedby what he finds: the Eloi, an elfin race who appear to have changed the toiland struggling of the world with beauty and contentment. But not all is normally well inthe world from the Eloi. What continues to be of this once-great culture today lives infear from the terrifying Morlocks, an underground competition who threaten the timetraveler’s come back home.

H. G. Wells was a pioneer from the research fictiongenre. This greatly influential book, which questions our place on Earth,weaves in his concepts of sociology and the social effect of industrialization.