This slide describes how HG Wells' novel The Time Machine became the most influential story about time travel. I think it's important because, as the most vital time travel story, it created many of the time travel elements we know today. The questions of what would happen if we found ourselves in the past and the “butterfly effect” could only be answered using a fictional story. However, these questions may become a reality one day and it is best to think about them before the advent of time travel brings about the end of the world as we know it.