Adapted and illustrated edition of The Time Machine at easy-to-read level for a new generation of readers aged 7+. After failing to convince his friends that time travel is possible, a nineteenth-century scientist invents a machine that takes him hundreds of years into the future. There, humans have evolved into two different species: the Eloi are kind and gentle, but the Morlocks are monsters! When the time machine is stolen, the traveller must risk death to find it – or face never returning to his own time. About the Sci-Fi Classics Children's Collection: The Science Fiction Children’s Collection features ten of the most exciting stories that helped forge the genre, including early dystopia, time travel, alien invasion, and adventures both undersea and underground. Readers will visit Mars, climb down a volcano and encounter hideous animal experiments on Dr Moreau’s island. They’ll meet famous characters such as Captain Nemo and John Carter – not to mention dinosaurs!