The Time Machine: An InventionWells was interested in the implications of evolutionary theory on the future of human beings at the biological, sociological, and cultural levels, and The Time Machine, short and readable, draws on many of the social and scientific debates of the time. The Broadview edition of this science fiction classic includes extensive materials on Wells’s scientific and political influences. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | 9 |
Introduction | 11 |
A Brief Chronology | 46 |
A Note on the Text | 52 |
The Time Machine | 55 |
The Evolutionary Context Biology | 157 |
The Evolutionary Context Society | 184 |
The Evolutionary Context Culture | 204 |
The Spatiotemporal Context Solar Death and the End of the World | 224 |
Extracts from Wellss Correspondence | 235 |
Wells on The Time Machine | 246 |
Reviews of The Time Machine | 261 |
Contemporary Portraits of Wells | 277 |
Selected Bibliography | 282 |
Works Cited | 293 |
The Spatiotemporal Context The Fourth Dimension | 212 |
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