Looking Backward: 2000 to 1887

A Victorian inventor rides his machine to the year 802,701 and finds humanity split into the gentle Eloi and the underground Morlocks. The book that invented the time machine.

H. G. Wells

A blow to the head sends a 19th-century factory boss back to Camelot, where he tries to modernize the Middle Ages. Twain's satire is one of the first trips to the past.

Mark Twain

A man sleeps for 203 years and wakes to learn that compound interest has made him owner of the world. The people who ran it in his name are not ready to hand it back.

H. G. Wells

Two New England sisters board a flying machine that circles the North Pole to turn back time and end up in Elizabethan London. A comic time travel novel from 1904.

Harold Steele MacKaye

Anthony Rogers is trapped in a mine by radioactive gas and wakes up 492 years later in a conquered America. The short novel that introduced Buck Rogers.

Philip Francis Nowlan