The Sleeper Awakes

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 Bostonian falls asleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000, in a country without poverty or money. One of the best-selling American novels of its century.

Edward Bellamy

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