English novelist, historian and science writer Herbert George Wells (1866&;1946) abandoned teaching and launched his literary career with a series of highly successful science-fiction novels. The Time Machine was the first of a number of these imaginative literary inventions. First published in 1895, the novel follows the adventures of a hypothetical Time Traveller who journeys into the future to find that humanity has evolved into two races: the peaceful Eloi &; vegetarians who tire easily &; and the carnivorous, predatory Morlocks.