Antiquated Linguistics: Despite being published in 1995, the book is written in the same Victorian style used by H.The book ends by saying that no appendix was found.

Before sealing the packet, the Time Traveller writes that he plans to go into the world of the Morlocks again, hopefully to return and add an appendix to the story.

Ambiguous Ending: The story ends with the Time Traveller writing down the recounting of his adventures and sealing them in a Plattnerite packet, a time capsule, in the hope that it will travel in time to a faithful scribe.

Alternate Timeline: Some are shown, while others are simply implied.

It contains numerous references to the works of H. Things go from bad to worse as history starts to spiral out of control, and the Time Traveller can only watch as each timeline becomes more warped than the last. After touring the sphere and looking at the advances of the new race of Morlocks, the Time Traveller decides to feign interest in cooperating, but instead use his time machine to go back to 1873 and stop himself from ever inventing time travel in the first place. One of these new Morlocks, Nebogipfel, takes an interest in the Time Traveller, with the intention of convincing him to reveal the secrets of the Time Machine. Instead of becoming the beastly herders of the Eloi, they're now a race of scholars, living on the surface of a Dyson Sphere. This resulted in the creation of a new kind of Morlock. Piecing together what happened, he realizes that a publishing of an account of his adventure by one of his friends caused humanity to take a different path and advance to become a Type II Kardashev civilization, causing the original future he visited to never occur. This causes him to panic and stop the time machine, falling out and finding himself in 657,208 AD. Earth's rotation on its axis is halted, and he notices that the sun has seemingly gone out.īefore he can arrive at 802,701 AD a mysterious creature which the Time Traveller refers to as the Watcher appears. However, this time around he notices things are drastically different. He eventually makes up his mind to go back to 802,701 AD in order to save Weena from her unfortunate demise. The story picks off with the the Time Traveller just having woken up, the day right after arriving back in Richmond, 1891. Campbell Memorial Award and the Philip K.

It was written by Stephen Baxter and published in 1995. It continues the original story, incorporating modern concepts such as Dyson Spheres and quantum physics. The Time Ships is the official authorized sequel to The Time Machine.

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