The Time Machine

Introduction

H. G. Wells had written the basis for his brief novel The Time Machine in a series of stories published in The Science Schools Journal in 1888. Labeled a dystopia by some critics, the story acts as a warning to readers that man's future may not be a positive one. Wells wrote in the tradition of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race (1871), the extremely popular cautionary futuristic tale of a threatening underworld.

Discussion

The Time Machine is quite short, a novella rather than a novel, and was a reworking of ideas Wells originally used in a short story, "The Chronic Argonauts" ...