Who wrote the science fiction novel 'The Time Machine'?

H. G. Wells wrote the science-fiction novel 'The Time Machine'.

Published in 1895, 'The Time Machine' introduced readers to an unnamed Victorian inventor known as the Time Traveller, who journeys far into Earth's future. The story's central device popularized the modern idea of a machine that can deliberately move through time, helping establish Wells as one of science fiction's foundational writers.

The traveller reaches the year 802,701, where humanity has divided into two strange descendant species: the gentle Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks. Wells uses this distant future not only for adventure, but also to explore class division, industrialization and the possible long-term consequences of human social arrangements.

The author's name is sometimes misstated as Henry George Wells; his full name was Herbert George Wells. Another common mix-up is Jules Verne, a fellow pioneer of speculative fiction, but Verne did not write 'The Time Machine'.