This edition of The Time Machine includes an Introduction, Biographical Note, and Afterword by James Gunn.The time? 802,701 A.D.The place? An Earth stranger than you can imagine.The people? A pretty, childlike race, the Eloi-and their distant cousins, the Morlocks: disgusting, hairy creatures who live in caves and feed on the flesh of-what? Enter the Time Traveller, who has hurtled almost a million years into the future. After the Morlocks steal his machine he may be trapped there....and at their mercy.