H.G. Wells’
The Time Machine has been adapted
into two full length films, at least two television series, and comic books.
The book has influenced science fiction and science for over a century. In
fact, the term time machine originated with Wells. The most famous adaptation
came in 1960. The makers adapted the film to the Cold War and included a
nuclear holocaust as well as the first two World Wars. The book sympathizes
with the working classes in the form of the Morlocks, who live underground,
operate machines, and cannibalize the Eloi. The Eloi represent the leisure
classes who have developed into child-like sheep. The film ends with the
traveler returning to Victorian Britain, grabbing some things, and setting off
to the future to be with Weena, whom he saved from the Morlocks. Wells was not the first to ponder time travel, but he popularized it and time travel has been a key component of science fiction ever since.
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