The Time Machine
An inventor arrives late and filthy at his own dinner party with an account of a chair-mounted apparatus that has carried him to the year 802,701, where a small, gentle, incurious people live among decaying palaces and will not go out after dark. Beneath the lawns are shafts, machinery and the other half of what the species has become. Wells took the class question of the 1890s and ran it out along the cooling of the sun.
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