The Time Ships – Baxter, Stephen

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and the memory of H. G.

My Encounter with the Morlocks

Revelations and Remonstrances

A Dialogue With a Morlock

The Morlocks of the Sphere

How the Morlocks Lived

Constructions and Divergences

Life and Death Among the Morlocks

Decision and Departure

How I Crossed Inter-Planetary Space

My Account of the Far Future

Rotations And Deceptions

Persuasion and Scepticism

The Juggernaut Lord Raglan

Old Acquaintance Renewed

The War With the Germans

A New Vision of Richmond

The House in Queen’s Gate Terrace

The Many Worlds Interpretation

The uplands of the Future

The German Assault on London

Illness and Recuperation

The Chronic Expeditionary Force

The Aftermath of the Bombing

The Establishment of First London

Children and Descendants

Abandonment and Arrival

Experiments and Reflections

The Universal Constructor

The Multiplicity Generator

The Mechanical Heirs of Man

Options and Introspections

The Unraveling of Earth

The Boundary of Space and Time

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 unlabeled 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.


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