The Time Machine: An Invention
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Marianne North, John Martin and J. M. W. Turner. A dinner-party inventor argues that time is a fourth dimension, disappears in his machine, and returns starving with an account of the year 802,701, where humanity has split into the delicate Eloi above ground and something else below. Wells was twenty-nine and this was his first novel; he had trained as a science teacher and knew how to make an impossible premise sound like a lecture. The horror is not the Morlocks but the arithmetic — what comfort does to a species, given time enough. Fifty-six plates of nineteenth-century painting, from Samuel Palmer's visionary landscapes to Adolph von Menzel's studies of clouds and volcanoes, give the deep past and the far future their weather.
Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Marianne North, John Martin and J. M. W. Turner. A dinner-party inventor argues that time is a fourth dimension, disappears in his machine, and returns starving with an account of the year 802,701, where humanity has split into the delicate Elo...
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H. G. Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer born in Bromley, Kent, apprenticed to a draper before winning a scholarship to study biology under T. H. Huxley. He wrote over a hundred books and helped invent the shape of modern science fiction. His works include The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The First Men in the Moon, and The War of the Worlds.
H. G. Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer born in Bromley, Kent, apprenticed to a draper before winning a scholarship to study biology under T. H. Huxley. He wrote over a hundred books and helped invent the shape of modern science fiction. His works include The Time Machine, The Island of Doc...
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