THE TIME TRAVELER
AS SEEN IN:
'Wishbone'
AS PLAYED BY:
Wishbone
CREATED BY:
H.G. Wells
TV DIMENSION:
Not Applicable
STATUS:
Dream Figure
From Wikipedia:
"The Time Machine" is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells,
published in 1895 and later adapted into two feature films of the same name, as
well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations.
It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in many media. This 32,000
word story is generally credited with the popularisation of the concept of time
travel using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and
selectively. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now universally used
to refer to such a vehicle. This work is an early example of the Dying Earth
subgenre.
The book's protagonist is an English scientist and gentleman inventor living in Richmond, Surrey, identified by a narrator simply as the Time Traveller. The narrator recounts the Traveller's lecture to his weekly dinner guests that time is simply a fourth dimension, and his demonstration of a tabletop model machine for travelling through it. He reveals that he has built a machine capable of carrying a person, and returns at dinner the following week to recount a remarkable tale, becoming the new narrator.
The book's protagonist is an English scientist and gentleman inventor living in Richmond, Surrey, identified by a narrator simply as the Time Traveller. The narrator recounts the Traveller's lecture to his weekly dinner guests that time is simply a fourth dimension, and his demonstration of a tabletop model machine for travelling through it. He reveals that he has built a machine capable of carrying a person, and returns at dinner the following week to recount a remarkable tale, becoming the new narrator.
Returning to the site where he arrived, the Time Traveller finds his time machine missing, and eventually works out that it has been dragged by some unknown party into a nearby structure with heavy doors, locked from the inside, which resembles a Sphinx. Later in the dark, he is approached menacingly by the Morlocks, ape-like troglodytes who live in darkness underground and surface only at night. Within their dwellings he discovers the machinery and industry that makes the above-ground paradise possible. He alters his theory, speculating that the human race has evolved into two species: the leisured classes have become the ineffectual Eloi, and the downtrodden working classes have become the brutish light-fearing Morlocks.
Deducing that the Morlocks have taken his time machine,
he explores the Morlock tunnels, learning that they feed on the Eloi. His
revised analysis is that their relationship is not one of lords and servants but
of livestock and ranchers, and with no real challenges facing either species.
They have both lost the intelligence and character of Man at its
peak.
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