The Time Ships
The highly-acclaimed sequel to H G Wells’s THE TIME MACHINE, from the heir to Arthur C. Clarke.Written to celebrate the centenary of the publication of H G Wells’s classic story The Time Machine, Stephen Baxter’s stunning sequel is an outstanding work of imaginative fiction.The Time Traveller has abandoned his charming and helpless Eloi friend Weena to the cannibal appetites of the Morlocks, the devolved race of future humans from whom he was forced to flee. He promptly embarks on a second journey to the year AD 802,701, pledged to rescue Weena. He never arrives! The future was changed by his presence… and will be changed again. Hurled towards infinity, the Traveller must resolve the paradoxes building around him in a dazzling temporal journey of discovery. He must achieve the impossible if Weena is to be saved.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 6: My Encounter With the Morlocks
Chapter 9: Revelations and Remonstrances
Chapter 10: A Dialogue With a Morlock
Chapter 12: The Morlocks of the Sphere
Chapter 13: How the Morlocks Lived
Chapter 14: Constructions and Divergences
Chapter 15: Life and Death Among the Morlocks
Chapter 16: Decision and Departure
Chapter 19: How I Crossed Inter-Planetary Space
Chapter 20: My Account of the Far Future
Chapter 22: Rotations and Deceptions
Chapter 6: Persuasion and Scepticism
Chapter 7: The Juggernaut Lord Raglan
Chapter 8: Old Acquaintance Renewed
Book Three: The War With the Germans
Chapter 1: A New Vision of Richmond
Chapter 4: The House in Queen’s Gate Terrace
Chapter 5: The Many Worlds Interpretation
Chapter 8: The Uplands of the Future
Chapter 11: The New World Order
Chapter 12: The German Assault on London
Chapter 4: Illness and Recuperation
Chapter 9: The Chronic Expeditionary Force
Chapter 12: The Aftermath of the Bombing
Chapter 16: The Establishment of First London
Chapter 17: Children and Descendants
Chapter 18: The Feast, and Later
Chapter 22: Abandonment and Arrival
Chapter 2: Experiments and Reflections
Chapter 3: The Universal Constructor
Chapter 6: The Multiplicity Generator
Chapter 7: The Mechanical Heirs of Man
Chapter 9: Options and Introspections
Chapter 2: The Unravelling of Earth
Chapter 3: The Boundary of Space and Time
Chapter 4: The Nonlinearity Engines
The attached account was given to me by the owner of a small second-hand bookshop, situated just off the Charing Cross Road in London. He told me it had turned up as a manuscript in an unlabelled box, in a collection of books which had been bequeathed to him after the death of a friend; the bookseller passed the manuscript on to me as a curiosity – ‘You might make something of it’ – knowing of my interest in the speculative fiction of the nineteenth century.
