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The Time MachineThe Time Machine
A Victorian inventor builds a machine that carries him hundreds of thousands of years into the future, where humanity has split into two strange races and the comfortable present looks suddenly fragile. The book that launched modern science fiction.
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A short, dizzying journey to the end of the world that invented the time-travel story and still unsettles, a Darwinian fable about where comfort and inequality might finally lead. You can read it in an evening; it stays for years.
SettingLondon & the far future
Late-Victorian Britain, confident in progress and machinery yet newly haunted by Darwin, by the gulf between rich and poor, and by the thought that even the sun will one day cool.