what inspired hg wells to write the time machine

1895 science fiction novel by Herbert George Wells

The Time Automobile

Title page
Writer	H. Chiliad. Wells
Encompass artist	Ben Hardy
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	William Heinemann (United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland) Henry Holt (United states)
Publication date	1895
Pages	84
Text	The Fourth dimension Auto at Wikisource

The Fourth dimension Auto is a scientific discipline fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of fourth dimension travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through fourth dimension. The term "time motorcar", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device.^[1]

Utilizing a frame story set in then-present Victorian England, Wells' text focuses on a recount of the otherwise anonymous Time Traveller's journey into the far time to come. A work of future history and speculative development, Fourth dimension Machine is interpreted in mod times every bit a commentary on the increasing inequality and class divisions of Wells' era, which he projects as giving rise to two separate human species: the fair, childlike Eloi, and the brutal, simian Morlocks, distant descendants of the contemporary upper and lower classes respectively.^{[2] [3]} It is believed that Wells' depiction of the Eloi as a race living in plentitude and abandon was inspired by the utopic romance novel News from Nowhere (1890), though Wells' universe in the novel is notably more than savage and brutal.^[4]

In his 1931 preface to the book, Wells wrote that The Fourth dimension Machine seemed "a very undergraduate performance to its at present mature writer, as he looks over it once more", though he states that "the writer feels no remorse for this youthful effort". Yet, critics have praised the novella'south handling of its thematic concerns, with Marina Warner writing that the book was the most pregnant contribution to understanding fragments of desire ^{[ clarify ]} earlier Sigmund Freud's The Estimation of Dreams, with the novel "[carrying] how shut he felt to the melancholy seeker later on a door that he in one case opened on to a luminous vision and could never find again".^[5]

The Time Machine has been adapted into two feature films of the same proper name, as well equally two telly versions and many comic book adaptations. It has also indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in many media productions.

History [edit]

Wells had considered the notion of time travel before, in a brusque story titled "The Chronic Argonauts" (1888). This work, published in his higher newspaper, was the foundation for The Time Machine.

Wells frequently stated that he had thought of using some of this material in a series of articles in the Pall Mall Gazette until the publisher asked him if he could instead write a serial novel on the same theme. Wells readily agreed and was paid £100 (equal to about £12,000 today) on its publication by Heinemann in 1895, which offset published the story in series form in the January to May editions of The New Review (newly under the nominal editorship of W. E. Henley).^[6] Henry Holt and Company published the first book edition (possibly prepared from a unlike manuscript)^[7] on seven May 1895; Heinemann published an English edition on 29 May.^[half-dozen] These two editions are different textually and are commonly referred to as the "Holt text" and "Heinemann text", respectively. Nearly all modern reprints reproduce the Heinemann text.^[8]

The story reflects Wells's own socialist political views, his view on life and abundance, and the contemporary angst most industrial relations. Information technology is too influenced by Ray Lankester's theories about social degeneration^[nine] and shares many elements with Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel Vril, the Power of the Coming Race (1871).^[10] Information technology is also idea that Wells' Eloi race shares many features with the works of other English socialists, most notably William Morris and his work News from Nowhere (1890), in which money is depicted equally irrelevant and work is merely undertaken equally a class of pleasure.^[4] Other science fiction works of the period, including Edward Bellamy's novel Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888) and the after motion picture Metropolis (1927), dealt with similar themes.^{[ citation needed ]} In his later reassessment of the book, published as the 1931 preface to The Time Car, Wells wrote that the text seemed to him "a very undergraduate performance to its now mature writer, as he looks over it once more", though he also claims that "the writer feels no remorse for this youthful endeavour". His preface also notes that the text has "lasted as long as the diamond-framed safe bicycle, which came in at most the date of its beginning publication", and is "assured it volition outlive him", attesting to the power of the volume.^[v]

Based on Wells's personal experiences and childhood, the working class literally spent a lot of their time clandestine. His own family would spend virtually of their time in a dark basement kitchen when not existence occupied in their begetter's shop.^[11] Later, his own female parent would work as a housekeeper in a house with tunnels beneath,^[12] where the staff and servants lived in underground quarters.^[thirteen] A medical periodical published in 1905 would focus on these living quarters for servants in poorly ventilated dark basements.^[14] In his early teens, Wells became a draper's amateur, having to piece of work in a basement for hours on terminate.

This work is an early instance of the Dying Earth subgenre. The portion of the novella that sees the Time Traveller in a distant future where the sun is huge and red also places The Time Machine inside the realm of eschatology; that is, the study of the terminate times, the cease of the world, and the ultimate destiny of humankind.^{[ citation needed ]}

Holt, Rinehart & Winston re-published the book in 2000, paired with The War of the Worlds, and commissioned Michael Koelsch to illustrate a new cover art.^[fifteen]

Plot [edit]

The book's protagonist is a Victorian English scientist and gentleman inventor living in Richmond, Surrey, identified by a narrator only as the Time Traveller. Similarly, with but i exception (a human being named Filby), none of the dinner guests present are ever identified by proper name, but rather by profession (for example, "the Psychologist") or concrete description (for example, "the Very Young Man").

The narrator recounts the Traveller'southward lecture to his weekly dinner guests that time is only a time and demonstrates a tabletop model machine for travelling through the fourth dimension. He reveals that he has built a car capable of carrying a person through time, and returns at dinner the post-obit week to recount a remarkable tale, becoming the new narrator.

In the new narrative, the Time Traveller tests his device. At first he thinks nothing has happened simply soon finds out he went five hours into the future. He continues forward and sees his house disappear and turn into a lush garden. The Time Traveller stops in A.D. 802,701, where he meets the Eloi, a society of small, elegant, artless adults. They live in small communities within large and futuristic notwithstanding slowly deteriorating buildings, and attach to a fruit-based diet. His efforts to communicate with them are hampered by their lack of marvel or discipline. They announced happy and carefree only fear the night, and particularly moonless nights. Observing them, he finds that they give no response to mysterious nocturnal disappearances, possibly considering the idea of information technology alone frightens them into silence. After exploring the area around the Eloi's residences, the Time Traveller reaches the top of a hill overlooking London. He concludes that the unabridged planet has become a garden, with little trace of human social club or engineering from the hundreds of thousands of years prior, and that communism^[16] has at last been achieved.

Returning to the site where he arrived, the Time Traveller is shocked to find his time automobile missing and somewhen concludes that it has been dragged past some unknown political party into a nearby structure with heavy doors, locked from the within, which resembles a Sphinx. Luckily, he had removed the machine's levers earlier leaving information technology (the time automobile being unable to travel through time without them). Later in the dark, he is approached menacingly by the Morlocks, ape-like troglodytes who live in darkness underground and surface only at night. Exploring one of many "wells" that lead to the Morlocks' dwellings, he discovers the mechanism and industry that makes the above-basis paradise of the Eloi possible. He alters his theory, speculating that the human race has evolved into two species: the leisured classes have go the ineffectual Eloi, and the downtrodden working classes accept become the savage light-fearing Morlocks.

Deducing that the Morlocks have taken his time machine, he explores the Morlock tunnels, learning that due to a lack of whatever other means of sustenance, they feed on the Eloi. The Time Traveller theorizes that intelligence is the effect of and response to danger; with no existent challenges facing the Eloi, they have lost the spirit, intelligence, and physical fettle of humanity at its pinnacle.

Meanwhile, he saves an Eloi named Weena from drowning every bit none of the other Eloi take any notice of her plight, and they develop an innocently appreciating human relationship over the course of several days. He takes Weena with him on an expedition to a distant structure dubbed "The Palace of Green Porcelain", which turns out to be a derelict museum. Here, the Time Traveller finds a fresh supply of matches and fashions a rough weapon confronting Morlocks, whom he must fight to go back his automobile. He plans to take Weena back to his own fourth dimension. Because the long and tiring journeying dorsum to Weena'due south home is likewise much for them, they cease in the forest for the nighttime. They are then overcome by Morlocks in the night, whereby Weena faints. The Traveller escapes when a pocket-size fire he had left behind them to distract the Morlocks catches up to them every bit a forest fire; Weena and the pursuing Morlocks are lost in the fire and the Fourth dimension Traveller is devastated over his loss.

The Morlocks open the Sphinx and utilise the time car every bit bait to capture the Traveller, not understanding that he volition employ information technology to escape. He reattaches the levers before he travels further ahead to roughly 30 meg years from his own time. There he sees some of the terminal living things on a dying Globe: Menacing reddish crab-like creatures slowly wandering the carmine beaches chasing enormous butterflies, in a world covered in simple lichenous vegetation. He continues to make jumps forward through time, seeing Globe'southward rotation gradually cease and the lord's day grow larger, redder, and dimmer, and the world falling silent and freezing equally the concluding degenerate living things die out.

Overwhelmed, he goes back to the machine and returns to his ain time, arriving at the laboratory only 3 hours after he originally left. He arrives late to his own dinner political party, whereupon, afterwards eating, the Fourth dimension Traveller relates his adventures to his disbelieving visitors, producing every bit testify two strange white flowers Weena had put in his pocket.

The original narrator then takes over and relates that he returned to the Time Traveller's house the side by side solar day, finding him preparing for another journeying and promising to return in a short time. However, the narrator reveals that he has waited three years before writing and stating the Time Traveller has not returned from his journey.

Deleted text [edit]

A section from the thirteenth chapter of the serial published in New Review (May 1895, partway down p. 577 to p. 580, line 29)^[17] does non appear in either of the 1895 editions of the book.^{[18] [19] [20]} Information technology was drafted at the suggestion of Wells's editor, William Ernest Henley, who wanted Wells to "oblige your editor" past lengthening the text with, among other things, an illustration of "the ultimate degeneracy" of humanity. "In that location was a slight struggle," Wells after recalled, "between the writer and W. E. Henley who wanted, he said, to put a little 'writing' into the tale. Only the writer was in reaction from that sort of thing, the Henley interpolations were cut out again, and he had his own way with his text."^[21] This portion of the story was published elsewhere as "The Final Men" (1940)^[22] and "The Grey Human".^[23] The deleted text was also published by Forrest J Ackerman in an issue of the American edition of Perry Rhodan.^{[ citation needed ]}

The deleted text recounts an incident immediately after the Traveller's escape from the Morlocks. He finds himself in the afar future in a frost covered moorland with simple grasses and black bushes, populated with furry, hopping herbivores resembling kangaroos. He stuns or kills one with a rock, and upon closer test realises they are probably the descendants of humans / Eloi / Morlocks. A gigantic, centipede-like arthropod approaches and the Traveller flees into the next 24-hour interval, finding that the animal has evidently eaten the tiny humanoid. The Dover Printing^[24] and Easton Printing editions of the novella restore this deleted segment.^{[ citation needed ]}

Scholarship [edit]

Significant scholarly commentary on The Time Car began from the early on 1960s, initially independent in various broad studies of Wells'southward early novels (such as Bernard Bergonzi'southward The Early H.M. Wells: A Written report of the Scientific Romances) and studies of utopias/dystopias in science fiction (such as Mark R. Hillegas's The Hereafter as Nightmare: H.Yard. Wells and the Anti-Utopians). Much critical and textual work was washed in the 1970s, including the tracing of the very circuitous publication history of the text, its drafts, and unpublished fragments.

Academic publications [edit]

A further resurgence in scholarship came around the time of the novella's centenary in 1995, and a major outcome of this was the 1995 conference and substantial anthology of academic papers, which was collected in impress as H.Thou. Wells's Perennial Time Machine.^[25] This publication then allowed the evolution of a guide-book for academic study at Master's and Ph.D. level: H.G. Wells's The Time Automobile: A Reference Guide.^[26]

The scholarly periodical The Wellsian has published effectually xx articles on The Time Machine, and a U.S. academic periodical The Undying Fire, devoted to H.M. Wells studies, has published three articles since its inception in 2002.^{[ citation needed ] [27]}

Subtext of the names Eloi and Morlock [edit]

The proper name Eloi is the Hebrew plural for Elohim, or bottom gods, in the One-time Testament.^{[28] [ dubious – discuss ]}

Wells's source for the proper name Morlock is less clear. It may refer to the Canaanite god Moloch associated with child sacrifice. The name Morlock may also exist a play on mollocks – what miners might phone call themselves – or a Scots word for rubbish,^[28] or a reference to the Morlacchi community in Dalmatia.^[29]

Symbols [edit]

The Time Machine tin can exist read as a symbolic novel. The fourth dimension machine itself tin can be viewed as a symbol, and in that location are several symbols in the narrative, including the Sphinx, flowers, and fire.

• The statue of the Sphinx is the place where the Morlocks hibernate the time automobile and references the Sphinx in the story of Oedipus who gives a riddle that he must first solve earlier he tin can pass.^[xxx] The Sphinx appeared on the cover of the first London edition as requested by Wells and would have been familiar to his readers.^[28]
• The white flowers can symbolize Weena'due south devotion and innocence and contrast with the mechanism of the fourth dimension machine.^[30] They are the merely proof that the Time Traveller's story is true.
• Burn symbolizes civilization: the Time Traveller uses information technology to ward off the Morlocks, merely information technology escapes his control and turns into a forest fire.^[thirty]

Adaptations [edit]

Radio and audio [edit]

Escape radio broadcasts [edit]

The CBS radio album Escape adjusted The Time Machine twice, in 1948 starring Jeff Corey, and again in 1950 starring Lawrence Dobkin as the traveller. A script adjusted by Irving Ravetch was used in both episodes. The Time Traveller was named Dudley and was accompanied past his skeptical friend Fowler as they traveled to the year 100,080.

1994 Alien Voices audio drama [edit]

In 1994, an audio drama was released on cassette and CD by Alien Voices, starring Leonard Nimoy as the Fourth dimension Traveller (named John in this adaptation) and John de Lancie as David Filby. John de Lancie's children, Owen de Lancie and Keegan de Lancie, played the parts of the Eloi. The drama is approximately two hours long and is more faithful to the story than several of the picture show adaptations. Some changes are fabricated to reflect modern language and cognition of scientific discipline.

7th Voyage [edit]

In 2000, Alan Young read The Fourth dimension Machine for 7th Voyage Productions, Inc., in 2016 to gloat the 120th Anniversary of H.G. Wells'southward novella.^[31]

2009 BBC Radio 3 circulate [edit]

Robert Glenister starred as the Time Traveller, with William Gaunt as H. G. Wells in a new 100-infinitesimal radio dramatisation by Philip Osment, directed by Jeremy Mortimer equally function of a BBC Radio Science Fiction flavour. This was the first accommodation of the novella for British radio. Information technology was first broadcast on 22 February 2009 on BBC Radio three^[32] and later published equally a ii-CD BBC audio book.

The other cast members were:

• Donnla Hughes every bit Martha
• Gunnar Cauthery equally Young H. Chiliad. Wells
• Stephen Critchlow as Filby, friend of the immature Wells
• Chris Pavlo as Bennett, friend of the young Wells
• Manjeet Mann as Mrs. Watchett, the Traveller's housemaid
• Jill Crado as Weena, one of the Eloi and the Traveller's partner
• Robert Lonsdale, Inam Mirza, and Dan Starkey every bit other characters

The adaptation retained the nameless status of the Time Traveller and fix information technology as a true story told to the young Wells by the time traveller, which Wells then re-tells as an older human to the United states of america journalist, Martha, whilst firewatching on the roof of Broadcasting House during the Blitz. It likewise retained the deleted ending from the novella equally a recorded message sent back to Wells from the future by the traveller using a prototype of his auto, with the traveller escaping the anthropoid creatures to xxx meg Advertizing at the terminate of the universe before disappearing or dying at that place.

Big Finish [edit]

On 5 September 2017, Big Finish Productions released an adaptation of The Time Machine. This adaptation was written by Marc Platt, and starred Ben Miles as the Time Traveller.

Platt explained in an interview that adapting The Time Machine to audio was non much different from writing Doc Who, and that he could see where some of the roots of early Physician Who came from.^[33]

Film adaptations [edit]

1949 BBC teleplay [edit]

The start visual adaptation of the volume was a alive teleplay broadcast from Alexandra Palace on 25 January 1949 past the BBC, which starred Russell Napier as the Fourth dimension Traveller and Mary Donn every bit Weena. No recording of this live circulate was made; the merely tape of the production is the script and a few blackness and white nevertheless photographs. A reading of the script, notwithstanding, suggests that this teleplay remained adequately faithful to the volume.^[34]

1960 film [edit]

In 1960, the novella was fabricated into a US science fiction picture show, also known promotionally equally H.G. Wells's The Fourth dimension Machine. The film starred Rod Taylor, Alan Immature, and Yvette Mimieux. The film was produced and directed by George Pal, who also filmed a 1953 version of Wells's The War of the Worlds. The motion picture won an Academy Accolade for fourth dimension-lapse photographic effects showing the world changing rapidly.

In 1993, Rod Taylor hosted Fourth dimension Motorcar: The Journey Dorsum reuniting him with Alan Immature and Whit Bissell, featuring the only sequel to Mr. Pal's classic flick, written by the original screenwriter, David Duncan. In the special were Academy Award-winners special issue artists Wah Chang and Cistron Warren.

1978 goggle box film [edit]

Sunn Classic Pictures produced a television flick version of The Fourth dimension Machine as a part of their "Classics Illustrated" series in 1978. Information technology was a modernization of the Wells's story, making the Fourth dimension Traveller a 1970s scientist working for a fictional US defence contractor, "the Mega Corporation". Dr. Neil Perry (John Beck), the Fourth dimension Traveller, is described every bit one of Mega's most reliable contributors by his senior co-worker Branly (Whit Bissell, an alumnus of the 1960 accommodation). Perry'due south skill is demonstrated by his rapid reprogramming of an off-course missile, averting a disaster that could destroy Los Angeles. His reputation secures a grant of $20 million for his time machine project. Although nearing completion, the corporation wants Perry to put the project on hold so that he can head a war machine weapon development project. Perry accelerates work on the time machine, permitting him to test it before being forced to piece of work on the new project.

2002 film [edit]

The 1960 film was remade in 2002, starring Guy Pearce as the Time Traveller, a mechanical engineering professor named Alexander Hartdegen, Mark Addy as his colleague David Filby, Sienna Guillory equally Alex's ill-blighted fiancée Emma, Phyllida Police as Mrs. Watchit, and Jeremy Irons as the Uber-Morlock. Playing a quick cameo equally a shopkeeper was Alan Young, who featured in the 1960 film. (H.Chiliad. Wells himself tin also exist said to have a "cameo" appearance, in the form of a photo on the wall of Alex'southward abode, near the front door.)

The film was directed by Wells'southward nifty-grandson Simon Wells, with an even more revised plot that incorporated the ideas of paradoxes and irresolute the past. The place is changed from Richmond, Surrey, to downtown New York City, where the Fourth dimension Traveller moves forward in time to find answers to his questions on 'Practical Application of Time Travel;' first in 2030 New York, to witness an orbital lunar catastrophe in 2037, earlier moving on to 802,701 for the main plot. He later briefly finds himself in 635,427,810 with toxic clouds and a earth laid waste (presumably past the Morlocks) with devastation and Morlock artifacts stretching out to the horizon.

It was met with mixed reviews and earned $56 one thousand thousand earlier VHS/DVD sales. The Time Automobile used a pattern that was very reminiscent of the ane in the Pal film but was much larger and employed polished turned brass construction, along with rotating glass reminiscent of the Fresnel lenses common to lighthouses. (In Wells'south original volume, the Time Traveller mentioned his 'scientific papers on optics'). Hartdegen becomes involved with a female Eloi named Mara, played past Samantha Mumba, who essentially takes the place of Weena, from the earlier versions of the story. In this motion picture, the Eloi have, every bit a tradition, preserved a "rock linguistic communication" that is identical to English language. The Morlocks are much more barbaric and agile, and the Time Traveller has a direct impact on the plot.

Derivative work [edit]

Time After Fourth dimension (1979 film) [edit]

In Time After Time, H.G. Wells invents a time automobile and shows it to some friends in a fashion similar to the first office of the novella. He does not know that one of his friends is Jack The Ripper. The Ripper, fleeing constabulary, escapes to the future (1979), but without a primal which prevents the machine from remaining in the time to come. When it does return home, Wells follows him in society to protect the futurity (which he imagines to be a utopia) from the Ripper. In turn, the motion-picture show inspired a 2017 TV series of the same proper noun.

Comics [edit]

Classics Illustrated was the first to adapt The Time Machine into a comic book format, issuing an American edition in July 1956.

The Classics Illustrated version was published in French by Classiques Illustres in Dec 1957, and Classics Illustrated Strato Publications (Australian) in 1957, and Kuvitettuja Klassikkoja (a Finnish edition) in November 1957. There were also Classics Illustrated Greek editions in 1976, Swedish in 1987, German in 1992 and 2001, and a Canadian reprint of the English edition in 2008.

In 1976, Marvel Comics published a new version of The Time Motorcar, as #2 in their Marvel Classics Comics serial, with art by Alex Niño. (This adaptation was originally published in 1973 past Pendulum Press as part of their Pendulum Now Age Classics series; it was colorized and reprinted past Curiosity in 1976.)

In 1977, Shine painter Waldemar Andrzejewski adapted the novel as a 22-page comic volume, written in Polish past Antoni Wolski.

From April 1990, Eternity Comics published a three-issue miniseries adaptation of The Time Automobile, written by Beak Spangler and illustrated by John Ross — this was collected equally a merchandise paperback graphic novel in 1991.

In 2018, US banner Insight Comics published an adaptation of the novel, as function of their "H. One thousand. Wells" serial of comic books.

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Wells's novella has get one of the cornerstones of science-fiction literature. Equally a result, it has spawned many offspring. Works expanding on^{[ commendation needed ]} Wells'southward story include:

• La Belle Valence by Théo Varlet and André Blandin (1923) in which a squadron of World War I soldiers find the Fourth dimension Machine and are transported back to the Spanish boondocks of Valencia in the 14th century. Translated by Brian Stableford as Timeslip Troopers (2012).
• Die Rückkehr der Zeitmaschine (1946) by Egon Friedell was the first straight sequel. It dwells heavily on the technical details of the machine and the time-paradoxes it might cause when the time car was used to visit the past. Subsequently visiting a futuristic 1995 where London is in the sky and the weather condition is created by companies, also as the yr 2123 where he meets two Egyptians who written report history using intuition instead of bodily science, the time traveler, who is given the name James MacMorton, travels to the past and ends upwardly weeks before the time machine was congenital, causing it to disappear. He is forced to utilize the miniature version of his fourth dimension machine, which already existed at that time, to transport telegraphic messages through time to a friend (the author), instructing him to send him things that will allow him to build a new machine. After returning to the nowadays, he tells his friend what happened. The 24,000-word German original was translated into English by Eddy C. Bertin in the 1940s and somewhen published in paperback equally The Return of the Fourth dimension Machine (1972, DAW).
• The Hertford Manuscript past Richard Cowper, first published in 1976. It features a "manuscript", which reports the Time Traveller's activities after the end of the original story. According to this manuscript, the Fourth dimension Traveller disappeared, because his Time Machine had been damaged by the Morlocks without him knowing it. He only found out when it stopped operating during his next attempted time travel. He found himself on 27 August 1665, in London during the outbreak of the Great Plague of London. The rest of the novel is devoted to his efforts to repair the Time Car and leave this time menstruation before getting infected with the disease. He as well has an encounter with Robert Hooke. He eventually dies of the disease on xx September 1665. The story gives a list of subsequent owners of the manuscript until 1976. Information technology besides gives the name of the Time Traveller as Robert James Pensley, born to James and Martha Pensley in 1850 and disappearing without trace on 18 June 1894.
• The Space Machine past Christopher Priest, first published in 1976. Considering of the movement of planets, stars, and galaxies, for a time machine to stay in one spot on Earth as it travels through time, it must also follow the Earth's trajectory through space. In Priest's book, a travelling salesman damages a Time Motorcar similar to the original, and arrives on Mars, just earlier the get-go of the invasion described in The War of the Worlds. H.M. Wells appears as a minor character.
• Morlock Night by K. Westward. Jeter, first published in 1979. A steampunk fantasy novel in which the Morlocks, having studied the Traveller's motorcar, duplicate it and invade Victorian London. This culminates in Westminster Abbey being used as a butcher shop of human beings by the Morlocks in the 20th century, and a total disruption and collapse of the time stream. At that place the hero and Merlin must find – and destroy – the Time Machine, to restore the time stream and history.
• Time Machine II by George Pal and Joe Morhaim, published in 1981. The Time Traveller, named George, and the significant Weena try to return to his fourth dimension, but instead state in the London Blitz, dying during a bombing raid. Their newborn son is rescued by an American ambulance driver and grows up in the United States under the proper name Christopher Jones. Sought out by the lookalike son of James Filby, Jones goes to England to collect his inheritance, leading ultimately to George's journals, and the Time Machine's original plans. He builds his ain automobile with 1970s upgrades and seeks his parents in the time to come. Pal too worked on a detailed synopsis for a third sequel, which was partly filmed for a 1980s U.S. Tv special on the making of Pal's film version of The Fourth dimension Machine, using the original actors. This 3rd sequel, the plot of which does not seem to fit with Pal'south second, opens with the Time Traveller enjoying a happy life with Weena, in a future earth in which the Morlocks have died out. He and his son return to save Filby in World War I. This human action changes the hereafter, causing the nuclear war not to happen. He and his son are thus cutting off from Weena in the far future. The Time Traveller thus has to solve a dilemma – allow his friend to dice, and cause the afterward death of millions, or give up Weena forever.
• The Man Who Loved Morlocks (1981) and The Truth virtually Weena (1998) are ii unlike sequels, the former a novel and the latter a short story, by David J. Lake. Each of them concerns the Time Traveller's render to the time to come. In the onetime, he discovers that he cannot enter any catamenia in time he has already visited, forcing him to travel into the further futurity, where he finds love with a woman whose race evolved from Morlock stock. In the latter, he is accompanied by Wells and succeeds in rescuing Weena and bringing her back to the 1890s, where her political ideas cause a peaceful revolution.
• The Time Ships, by Stephen Baxter, start published in 1995. This sequel was officially authorised by the Wells manor to mark the centenary of the original's publication. In its broad-ranging narrative, the Traveller'due south desire to return and rescue Weena is thwarted by the fact that he has inverse history (by telling his tale to his friends, one of whom published the business relationship). With a Morlock (in the new history, the Morlocks are intelligent and cultured), he travels through the multiverse equally increasingly complicated timelines unravel effectually him, eventually coming together mankind's far hereafter descendants, whose ambition is to travel back to the birth of the universe, and modify the style the multiverse volition unfold. This sequel includes many nods to the prehistory of Wells'south story in the names of characters and chapters.
• In "The Richmond Enigma" by John DeChancie, Sherlock Holmes investigates the disappearance of the Time Traveler, a contemporary and, in this story, a distant relative. The intervention of Holmes and Watson succeeds in calling dorsum the missing Fourth dimension Traveler, who has resolved to foreclose the time machine's existence, out of concern for the danger information technology could make possible. The story appeared in Sherlock Holmes in Orbit (1995)^[35]
• The Steam Homo of the Prairie and the Nighttime Passenger Get Down: A Dime Novel past Joe R. Lansdale, first published in The Long Ones (1999). In this story, the Time Traveller accidentally damages the space-fourth dimension continuum and is transformed into the vampire-similar Nighttime Rider.
• The 2003 short story "On the Surface" by Robert J. Sawyer begins with this quote from the Wells original: "I accept suspected since that the Morlocks had fifty-fifty partially taken it [the fourth dimension motorcar] to pieces while trying in their dim fashion to grasp its purpose." In the Sawyer story, the Morlocks develop a fleet of time machines and employ them to conquer the same far futurity Wells depicted at the stop of the original, by which fourth dimension, because the dominicus has grown blood-red and dim and thus no longer blinds them, they can reclaim the surface of the world.
• The Time Traveller and his automobile appear in the story Allan and the Sundered Veil by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, which acts as a prequel to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Book One. The Time Traveller shares an adventure with fellow literary icons Allan Quatermain, John Carter, and Randolph Carter.
• David Haden'southward novelette The Fourth dimension Machine: A Sequel (2010) is a direct sequel, picking upward where the original finished. The Fourth dimension Traveller goes back to rescue Weena only finds the Eloi less elementary than he start imagined, and time travel far more than complicated.
• Simon Baxter's novel The British Empire: Psychic Battalions Against the Morlocks (2010) imagines a steampunk/cyberpunk futurity in which the British Empire has remained the dominant world force until the Morlocks arrive from the futurity.
• Hal Colebatch'southward Time-Machine Troopers (2011) (Acashic Publishers) is twice the length of the original. In information technology, the Time Traveller returns to the hereafter world almost xviii years after the fourth dimension he escaped from the Morlocks, taking with him Robert Baden-Powell, the real-globe founder of the Boy Scout movement. They set up out to teach the Eloi self-reliance and self-defense against the Morlocks, but the Morlocks capture them. H.Thou. Wells and Winston Churchill are also featured every bit characters.
• Paul Schullery'southward The Time Traveller'southward Tale: Chronicle of a Morlock Captivity (2012) continues the story in the voice and style of the original Wells book. Afterwards many years' absence, the Time Traveller returns and describes his further adventures. His attempts to mobilize the Eloi in their own defense against the Morlocks failed when he was captured by the Morlocks. Much of the book is occupied with his deeply unsettling discoveries about the Morlock / Eloi symbiosis, his gradual assimilation into Morlock society, and his ultimately successful endeavour to observe the true cause of humanity's catastrophic transformation into two such tragic races.
• The Bully Illustrated Classics in 1992 published an accommodation of Wells'southward novella that adds an extra destination to the Time Traveller'south take chances: Stopping in 2200 Advert on his style back home, he becomes caught up in a civil war betwixt factions of a technocratic gild that was established to avert ecological ending.
• Beyond the Fourth dimension Automobile by Burt Libe (2002). The first of two Time Machine sequels written past Usa writer Burt Libe, information technology continues the story of the Time Traveller: where he finally settles downwardly, including his rescue of Weena and his subsequent family with her. Highlighted are exploits of his daughters Narra and her younger sister Belinda; coping with their 33rd-Century existence; because their unusual by and far-Future heritage. Doing some time travelling of their ain, the daughters revisit 802,701 Ad, discovering that the so-called dual-specie Eloi and Morlock inhabitants actually are far more complex and complicated than their begetter's initial appraisement.
• Tangles in Time by Burt Libe (2005). The second of two Time Machine sequels written by American writer Burt Libe, it continues the story of younger daughter Belinda, now grown at age 22. Her father (the original Time Traveller) has just died from old age, and she and Weena (her mother) at present must decide what to do with the residuum of their lives. Weena makes a very unusual decision, leaving Belinda to search for her own place in time. Also, with further time travel, she locates her two long-lost brothers, previously idea to be expressionless; she likewise meets and rescues a beau from the far future, finding herself involved in a very confusing relationship.

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• El anacronópete
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• Time travel in fiction
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• Human extinction
• List of time travel scientific discipline fiction
• The Scientific discipline Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Ii, an anthology of the greatest science fiction novels prior to 1965, as judged by the Science Fiction Writers of America
• 1895 in science fiction
• Carcinisation, the observation that a crab-like body plan has been independently evolved by many species.

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