Written back in the late 1800’s, H.G. Wells tells a very cut and dry story of a professor, a dreamer, who builds a machine to travel in time.
This professor, at a dinner at his home talks to his friends about his invention, The Time Machine. How it can achieve travel forward and backwards in time. And how he has tried it and has returned and will again try it to a further extent. His friends ’’poo-pooed ’’ him and never believed a word of his tale of time travel.
After the dinner party, and after sending his housekeeper out of his way, the professor makes his way to his time machine to begin an adventure most unbelievable.
As he sits in his machine going slowly forward in time, he watches days, months, years and centuries go by. The machine picks up speed and delivers him thousands of years into the future.
A future after a war of all wars destroys the human race except for a few...The Eloi’s and the Morlocks.
The story goes on to tell how the mild mannered, carefree Eloi’s are preyed upon by the sub-human, below ground, Morlocks, and how the professor becomes enamored with one particular Eloi, Weena.
The book takes us through the trials and tribulations of ’’life’’ thousands of years into the future, after all progress is destroyed and ’’learning’’ must be taught all over again.
I don’t want to go into details about the exact storyline and ruin it for those of you who haven’t yet read it (or seen the movie). So I will just say it was quite interesting watching time pass and see what horror we can actually unleash if we don’t start respecting each other and this great earth we live on.