
The Time Machine
H.G. Wells (1895)
“A Victorian scientist travels 800,000 years into the future and discovers that humanity has split into two species — one bred for leisure, the other for labor — and the laborers are eating the leisured.”
EraVictorian / Early Sci-Fi
Pages118
Difficulty★★★☆☆ Challenging
AP Appearances3
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