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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... have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave. Just as we should travel down if we began our existence fifty miles above the earth's surface.' 'But the great difficulty is 9.
... have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave. Just as we should travel down if we began our existence fifty miles above the earth's surface.' 'But the great difficulty is 9.
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... -Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way?' 'Oh, this,' began Filby, 'is all—' 'Why not?' said the Time Traveller. 'It's against reason,' said Filby. 'What reason?' said the Time Traveller. 'You can show black 10.
... -Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way?' 'Oh, this,' began Filby, 'is all—' 'Why not?' said the Time Traveller. 'It's against reason,' said Filby. 'What reason?' said the Time Traveller. 'You can show black 10.
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... began the Psychologist. 'Yes, so it seemed to me, and so I never talked of it until 'Experimental verification!' cried I. 'You are going to verify that?' 'The experiment!' cried Filby, who was getting brainweary. 'Let's see 12.
... began the Psychologist. 'Yes, so it seemed to me, and so I never talked of it until 'Experimental verification!' cried I. 'You are going to verify that?' 'The experiment!' cried Filby, who was getting brainweary. 'Let's see 12.
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... began to fill his pipe. We stared at each other. 'Look here,' said the Medical Man, 'are you in earnest about this? Do you seriously believe that that machine has travelled into time?' 'Certainly,' said the Time Traveller, stooping to ...
... began to fill his pipe. We stared at each other. 'Look here,' said the Medical Man, 'are you in earnest about this? Do you seriously believe that that machine has travelled into time?' 'Certainly,' said the Time Traveller, stooping to ...
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... began a question. 'Tell you presently,' said the Time Traveller. 'I'm— funny! Be all right in a minute.' He put down his glass, and walked towards the staircase door. Again I remarked his lameness and the soft padding sound of his ...
... began a question. 'Tell you presently,' said the Time Traveller. 'I'm— funny! Be all right in a minute.' He put down his glass, and walked towards the staircase door. Again I remarked his lameness and the soft padding sound of his ...
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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