Who is the author of the first scientific romance 'The Time Machine'?

H. G. Wells (Herbert George Wells) wrote The Time Machine, published in 1895. It is considered the progenitor of the time-travel subgenre of science fiction.

• The story follows a Victorian scientist who travels to the year 802,701 and reaches London there.
• Characters: The Time Traveller, The Narrator, Weena, Eloi, Morlock.

Other science fiction works by Wells: The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The First Men in the Moon.