In these 'scientific romances' H. G. Wells sees the present reflected in the
future and the future in the present. His aim is to provoke rather than predict.
The Sleeper falls into a trance, waking up two centuries later as the richest
man in a world of new technologies, power-greedy leaders, sensual elites, and
brutalised industrial slaves. Arriving in the year 802,701, the Time-Traveller
finds that humanity has evolved into two drastically different species; going
farther still, he witnesses the ultimate fate of the solar system. The Chronic
Argonauts, the original version of The Time Machine, pits a scientist with
daring views of time and space