Wells joined the ranks of future fiction writers when he published this iconic novel in 1895. It has been called the progenitor of the time travel theme in science fiction, but more important to our subgenre, he wrote a book about what was possible, and made it seem very real. The storyline is well known, having been made into at least a dozen movies at last count. Basically, the book chronicles the travels of a nameless protagonist almost a million years into the future, where he finds two classes of humanoids: a flighty, useless upper echelon and a devolved lower class that furnishes food, clothing and shelter to them -- but always in a way that keeps them dependent. According to Britannica.com, “The Time Machine is a deliberate debunking of the utopian fiction of the late nineteenth century, in particular William Morris’s News from Nowhere. Where Morris depicts a pastoral, socialist utopia, Wells represents a world in which the human struggle is doomed to failure.”
Futurist Themes:
- Economic Inequality
- Technology and Progress
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