The Time Machine

What I enjoy most in sci-fi, is the reflection of the reality of the author, in the way he imagines the future, and how descriptive it is of their own time. It shows that the book was written when the “specter of Communism was haunting Europe”, and when the Theory of Evolution suggested that anything is possible. However, the future imagined by Wells felt a tad ridiculous. Even though he explains his theory in the book, and how the present we live in lead to that future, but all I could think of was “really? that's what you came up with?”. It's still a very enjoyable adventure book, but as far as sci-fi books being an observation of reality, I found this one lacking. It felt more like a fantasy book (i know that I have more than a century of science discoveries over him but that's not what I'm talking about).