When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700 -- and everything has changed. In another, more utopian age, creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony. The Time Traveller thought he could study these marvelous beings -- unearth their secret and then retum to his own time -- until he discovered that his invention, his only avenue of escape, had been stolen.

　　H.G. Well's famous novel of one man's astonishing journey beyond the conventional limits of the imagination first appeared in 1895. It won him immediate recognition, and has been regarded ever since as one of the great masterpieces in the literature of science fiction.

赫·喬·韋爾斯（H.G. Wells, 1866-1946），英國小說傢，社會這傢、曆史學傢。他先在倫敦皇傢學院師從赫胥黎學習生物學，後於1888年畢業於倫敦大學。1895年齣版的科幻小說《時間機器》使他一舉成名。該書以奇特的情節和誇張的手法，諷刺資本主義社會的醜惡現象。其後他又發錶瞭一係列的科幻小說，包括著名的《國際戰爭》《神食》《首先登上月球的人們》等，預言瞭科學對人類産生重要作用的同時也給人類帶來瞭可怕的災難，使人們意識到20世紀技術世界的希望一危險同在。1920年發錶的100萬字的巨著《世界史綱：生物和人類的簡明史》，奠定瞭他作為曆史學傢的地位。從30年代開始，他積極投身政治，見過羅斯福和斯大林。因此，他生前被認為是有創造性的藝術傢，對未來的預言傢和積極的社會改革傢。