The time machine

H. G. Wells was a pioneer of science fiction. He was a sort of time machine himself, his mind moving across the vast distances of space, making stories about the imagined future or the long-forgotten past. "The Time Machine" is one of the first books on time- traveling. The main protagonist builds a time machine and goes to the distant future. There he finds that humanity still still lives on Earth, but evolution pulled a bizarre joke on it...