It sets a pattern for science-fiction to critique extreme developments of class, seen later in works from Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis (1927) to Orwell’s 1984 (1949), though arguably Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726) had established the idea with the yahoos and the houyhnhnms. Wells’ first book in the genre, The Time Machine, is a critique of utopian ideas, set in the year 802701, in which the human race is divided into two groups, the subterranean workers, the Morlocks, and the decadent Eloi.
The science-fiction novels of H G Wells are undoubtedly more than fantasies located in imagined future worlds The Invisible Man (1897) is an examination of the isolation of the pioneer-scientist in an uncomprehending world, The War of the Worlds (1898) a vision of apocalypse, and The First Men in the Moon (1901) an exploration of the idea of imperialism.
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