The Time MachineH. G. Wells' The Time Machine, from 1895, popularized the idea of a vehicle that allows its user to travel intentionally and selectively across time, and indeed Wells is credited with coining the very term "time machine." The Time Traveler of this novella tests his time machine with a leap forward to the year 802,701 A.D., to find that evolution has produced two very different post-human races - the peaceful and childlike fruit-eating Eloi and the Morlocks - pale, darkness-dwelling troglodites who operate the underground machinery that makes this seeming paradise possible. |
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... Medical Man, staring hard at a coal in the fire, 'if Time is really only a fourth dimension of Space, why is it, and why has it always been, regarded as something different? And why cannot we move in Time as we move about in the other ...
... Medical Man, staring hard at a coal in the fire, 'if Time is really only a fourth dimension of Space, why is it, and why has it always been, regarded as something different? And why cannot we move in Time as we move about in the other ...
Page 9
... Medical Man. 'There are balloons.' 'But before the balloons, save for spasmodic jumping and the inequalities of the surface, man had no freedom of vertical movement.' 'Still they could move a little up and down,' said the Medical Man ...
... Medical Man. 'There are balloons.' 'But before the balloons, save for spasmodic jumping and the inequalities of the surface, man had no freedom of vertical movement.' 'Still they could move a little up and down,' said the Medical Man ...
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... convenient for the historian,' the Psychologist suggested. 'One might travel back and verify the accepted account of the Battle of Hastings, for instance!' 'Don't you think you would attract attention?' said the Medical 11.
... convenient for the historian,' the Psychologist suggested. 'One might travel back and verify the accepted account of the Battle of Hastings, for instance!' 'Don't you think you would attract attention?' said the Medical 11.
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... Medical Man. 'Our ancestors had no great tolerance for anachronisms.' 'One might get one's Greek from the very lips of Homer and Plato,' the Very Young Man thought. 'In which case they would certainly plough you for the Little-go. The ...
... Medical Man. 'Our ancestors had no great tolerance for anachronisms.' 'One might get one's Greek from the very lips of Homer and Plato,' the Very Young Man thought. 'In which case they would certainly plough you for the Little-go. The ...
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... Medical Man, and Filby tried to tell us about a conjurer he had seen at Burslem; but before he had finished his preface the Time Traveller came back, and Filby's anecdote collapsed. The thing the Time Traveller held in his hand was a ...
... Medical Man, and Filby tried to tell us about a conjurer he had seen at Burslem; but before he had finished his preface the Time Traveller came back, and Filby's anecdote collapsed. The thing the Time Traveller held in his hand was a ...
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animal bars beautiful began breathing bright bronze bushes camphor clambering creatures crematoria crowbar cupola darkness dimensions door dust earth Editor Eloi eyes face faint fancied fear feeling feet fell felt Filby fire flame flaring flashed flickering floor flowers Fourth Dimension future gallery glare gone Green Porcelain grew hand head heaps heard hesitated hill huge human incontinently laboratory lamp laughed Lemur lever lichen light little lawn little Weena looked round machine match Medical mind minute moon Morlocks move night once Palace of Green pedestal perhaps pocket presently Psychologist quartz queer reflection rhododendron ruins seemed shadow shaft silent sleep slope slower smiled soft space stared stars stood stopped strange struck suddenly tell thick thing thought took Traveller tried turned Upper-world vanished verdigris watch White Sphinx wood