Self-experimentation in medicine in fiction
The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
Key Statistics
ID: the-time-machinePublished
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