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The Time Machine by H.G. Wells tells the story of a Victorian inventor known as the Time Traveller who journeys 800,000 years into the future and discovers that humanity has evolved into two distinct species, the peaceful Eloi and the predatory, underground-dwelling Morlocks. The Eloi are farmed and eaten by the Morlocks, and the Time Traveller recounts his harrowing adventures and ultimate return to his own time to a group of skeptical dinner guests. Readers should be aware of some anachronistic racial and gender terms in the text.