Each of us is a time traveler H.G. Wells rightfully occupies one of the most important places in the world of fiction. He is one of the founders and founders of the fiction that exists today. His ideas are interesting, revolutionary and always have a social connotation, and his works make us perceive the real world in a new way. "The Time Machine" is not his favorite work for me, but the book raises many important issues of society and what our world can come to. Wells was the first (as far as I know) to introduce the concepts of a special device for time travel and simply calls it a time machine. His ideas with such a machine will then be picked up by many authors of books and films in which a similar machine will act according to its slightly modified rules. But all of them, as one, will be able to move people from the past to the future and vice versa. The great Wells shows us the world of the very distant future - 800,000 years. No one has looked so far in my "book memory" yet. Here in this time, humanity exists as a species that is divided into 2 categories. Some live underground, are descendants of hard workers who have degraded and do not see the sun. Others are weak and unbearable. Some are afraid of daylight, others are afraid of the darkness of night. Underground inhabitants are dangerous because they prey on those who live on the surface. Reading this work, it's like you find yourself there, and you feel uneasy. The "time machine" is imbued with a certain doom of the world of the future, where, after millennia, two new branches of humanity have degraded, and there is not even a thought about development. I think everyone will see the author's message for themselves. For me, this is a wild dystopia, where the consequences of today's (a century ago) class inequality will lead to exactly such consequences when humanity degrades. And we need to act today so that this does not happen. I don't know. In my opinion, the work exaggerates possible realities, but that's why it's fiction, and H.G. Wells is H.G. Wells. He is the author, and he offered such a vision. On the other hand, the future is already on the threshold. We see it in movies, computer games, books, and increasingly in science news. New technologies and opportunities are emerging. And taking into account the material capabilities of some people who will be able, say, to change themselves and improve centuries later, it is quite possible that a similar division into castes or even species is quite acceptable in the future for us. 7 out of 10