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''[http://pd.sparknotes.com/lit/timemachine/ The Time Machine]'' is a classic tale of [[Time Travel]], and the first to use a scientific mechanism to achieve it. Where his predecessors had used [[All Just a Dream|visions]] to achieve the time travel, and only sent their protagonists [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]], [[HG Wells]] had his protagonist invent an actual time machine and travel into the far future.
 
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== The Book ==
* [[An Aesop]]: Don't exploit working class, or their descendants will eat your descendants (which reflects Wells' socialist views)
* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: The Eloi appear to meet [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/ADHD_predominantly_inattentive:ADHD predominantly inattentive|DSM criteria for inattentive ADHD]]. All of them. From chapter 4:
{{quote| A queer thing I soon discovered about my little hosts, and that was their lack of interest. They would come to me with eager cries of astonishment, like children, but like children they would soon stop examining me and wander away after some other toy.}}
* [[Beneath the Earth]] (The Morlocks)
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