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Self-experimentation in medicine in fiction

The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

Key Statistics

ID: the-time-machine

Published

1895

Pages

80

Est. Weight

0.7 lbs

About this Edition

The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701: the world has been transformed by a society living in apparent harmony and bliss, but as the Traveler stays in the future he discovers a hidden barbaric and depraved subterranean class. Wells's transpar...

Subjects: Self-experimentation in medicine in fiction, Fiction, Time travel in fiction, Dystopias in fiction, Literature Last Updated: 1/10/2026