
H. G. Wells · 1895 · Science fiction
A Victorian inventor tells his dinner guests an unbelievable story: he has built a machine that travels through time, and he has just returned from the year 802,701, where humanity has split into two species and civilization has done worse than collapse. The book that gave us the phrase.
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