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The Time Machine (1895)
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H. G. Wells treats time as a dimension a person might travel through, then uses the journey to make Victorian confidence look very small. Its imagined future presses class divisions and evolutionary change into the same disturbing thought experiment. Pick it for an adventure whose widening timescale keeps changing what its discoveries mean. Penguin Archive edition: 128 pages.
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About The Time Machine
The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701: the world has been transformed by a society living in apparent harmony and bliss, but as the Traveler stays in the future he discovers a hidden barbaric and depraved subterranean class. Wells's transparent commentary on the capitalist society was an instant bestseller and launched the time-travel genre.