What is it about some stories that they catch our imaginations so fiercely, for generation after generation?As I write, DreamWorks films is releasing a new version of Wells's The Time Machine. You can bet they wouldn't put a penny into making a major new movie if they didn't think people would flock to watch it. No doubt the story will be changed to soup it all up, and it'll have all the special effects you could ask for-- but the original story was written by H.G. Wells more than a hundred years ago and it reads brilliantly today.

The Time Traveller has ridden his machine hundreds of thousands of years into the future.Buildings, cities, and civilizations rise and fall before his eyes. He is welcomed to 802701 by the frail and simple Eloi.

The future seems safe--until the Time Traveller encounters the shadowy, carnivorous Morlocks, inhabitants of the Underworld. The Morlocks terrorize the Eloi, hunt the Time Traveller, and capture the Time Machine.

Can the Time Traveller escape the future with his Time Machine...and his life?