
A Victorian scientist develops a time machine and travels to the year 802,171 AD.There he finds the meek, child-like Eloi who live in fear of the underground-dwelling Morlocks.When his time machine goes missing, the Traveller faces a fight to enter the Morlocks' domain and return to his own time. THE TIME MACHINE remains one of the cornerstones of science-fiction literature and has proved hugely influential.