Of particular interest is when the Time Traveler visits the year 802,701, where his home has been transformed into a Utopian world inhabited by the Eloi, a post-human race.
Well's novel was his first scientific romance, and like his other novels, posited the destructive nature of a stratified society. Well's The Time Machine, published in 1895.
Science Fiction has strains that are inherently political, and a good, prototype of the subgenre of dystopian stories is H.G. Dystopia tends to be a subjective variation on that, with one person’s dystopia being another’s Utopia. Brave New Words, a dictionary of science fiction, defines dystopia as "an imagined society or state of affairs in which conditions are extremely bad, especially in which these conditions result from the continuation of some current trend to an extreme." The term is rooted with Sir Thomas More’s book Utopia, which helped to push both the development of dystopian fiction and that of communism. Generally featuring an extreme government that exerts control over its citizens, these stories have been popular warnings over the course of the last century. The reaction from politicians, the press and the public have ranged from outraged to cautious, and it has gotten me thinking recently about a subgenre of science fiction: dystopian novels. The ongoing saga of Edward Snowden and the information about the NSA Prism system that he leaked has been likened so something out of a near-future thriller novel.
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