English novelist, historian and science writer Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) abandoned teaching and launched his literary career with a series of highly successful science-fiction novels. 'The Time Machine' was the first of a number of these imaginative literary inventions. The novel follows the adventures of a hypothetical Time Traveller who journeys into the future to find that humanity has evolved inro 2 races - the vegetarians (Eloi) and the carnivorous (Morlocks). While the novel iss underpinned with both Darwinian and Marxist theory, it also succeeds as an exciting blend of adventure and pseudo-scientific romance. Sure to delight lovers of fantastic and bizarre, it is a book that belongs on the shelf orf every science-fiction fan.