What happened next? For more than a century, readers of H.G. Wells' science fiction masterpiece, The Time Machine, have longed to know what happened to the Time Traveler when, at the close of the story, he left Victorian London once again to travel 800,000 years into humanity's remote and tragic future. The Time Traveler's Tale answers that question, chronicling his return to the grotesque world of the Eloi and Morlocks, where he embarks on an exploration of the spectacular ruins of a barely recognizable Europe and confronts the doom of a thousand ancient civilizations, including his own.