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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... Story!' cried the Editor. 'Story be damned!' said the Time Traveller. 'I want something to eat. I won't say a word until I get some peptone into my arteries. Thanks. And the salt.' 'One word,' said I. 'Have you been time travelling ...
... Story!' cried the Editor. 'Story be damned!' said the Time Traveller. 'I want something to eat. I won't say a word until I get some peptone into my arteries. Thanks. And the salt.' 'One word,' said I. 'Have you been time travelling ...
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... story to tell over greasy plates.' And ringing the bell in passing, he led the way into the adjoining room. 'You ... story, but I can't argue. I will,' he went on, 'tell you the story of what has happened to me, if you like, but you must ...
... story to tell over greasy plates.' And ringing the bell in passing, he led the way into the adjoining room. 'You ... story, but I can't argue. I will,' he went on, 'tell you the story of what has happened to me, if you like, but you must ...
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... story as I have set it forth. He sat back in his chair at first, and spoke like a weary man. Afterwards he got more animated. In writing it down I feel with only too much keenness the inadequacy of pen and ink—and, above all, my own ...
... story as I have set it forth. He sat back in his chair at first, and spoke like a weary man. Afterwards he got more animated. In writing it down I feel with only too much keenness the inadequacy of pen and ink—and, above all, my own ...
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