H.G. Wells invented the time travel story and used it to deliver a devastating critique of Victorian class divisions. The Time Traveller journeys to the year 802,701 to find humanity split into the gentle, useless Eloi and the monstrous Morlocks—a future that extrapolates industrial capitalism's logic to its horrifying conclusion. Wells writes speculative fiction as social warning, creating adventure that's also prophecy. This science fiction classic pioneered time travel literature and remains a powerful critique of class inequality and industrial society.
 
 
 
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