The Time Machine

I did not like this book written by H.G. Wells. An English inventor has built a time machine and decides to test it out. He arrives in the year 802,701 and discovers that humans have evolved into two separate species. The Eloi are small, childlike people who live in fear of underground creatures known as Morlocks that hunt at night and are more intelligent. He later jumps to 30 million years later and sees that life on Earth is starting to die off.

The book was published in 1895 and popularized ideas about a machine that would allow a time traveler to pick which time period to arrive in and also ideas about a dying Earth. The book is based on the Block Theory of the Universe, about time being another physical dimension. The book will not be included in the public domain of the European Union until 2017.