JW Schnarr - Timelines: Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells The Time Machine

Stories Inspired by H.G. Wells

The Time Machine

Wells Unleashed Series

Book 2

Edited by

JW Schnarr

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The Time Machine

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Timelines: Stories Inspired by HG Wells The Time Machine

2010 by JW Schnarr

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This edition of

Timelines: Stories Inspired by HG Wells The Time Machine

2010 by Northern Frights Publishing

Timelines: Stories Inpsired by HG Wells The Time Machine

Edited by JW Schnarr

Cover Art and Design 2010 by Gavro Krackovic

Interior Layout and Design 2010 by JW Schnarr

All stories their respective authors. Northern Frights Publishing reserves the right to publish Timelines: Stories Inspired by HG Wells The Time Machine in perpetuity.

Northern Frights Publishing is proudly Canadian.

This book is a collection of stories inspired by the Herbert George Wells novel The Time Machine . No paradoxes were made during the creation of this book. If you or someone you know was altered or erased from the Timeline as a result of purchasing this book, take heart. NFP now accepts returns from book sellers!

This book is a collection of stories based on the Public Domain work of Herbert George Wells and his novel The Time Machine. The characters, names, and places of some of the stories are derivatives of the original work.

For everything ever taken away from us,

And for everything we wish we could have taken back.

Acknowledgements

In no particular order, as always, thanks go out to my sister Janice for her contuinued support of NFP and everything that happens therein; A big thank you and lots of love to my daughter Aurora for making me want to be more than I am, and thank you to my great friends, who continue to buy NFP books and give me encouragement.

Of course, this collection would ber nothing without the artists and authors who contributed to make it so special; and to you, the reader, goes the biggest thanks of all.

Foreword By Paul J. Nahin

The End Of The Experiment By Peter Clines

Love And Glass By Michael Scott Bricker

Perpetual Motion Blues By Harper Hull

Rocking My Dreamboat By Victorya

Spree By John Medaille

The Time Traveller By Vincent L. Scarsella

Correspondence By Ruthanna Emrys

The Woman Who Came To The Paradox By Derek J. Goodman

Midnight At The End Of The Universe By Eric Ian Steele

Happiness Everlasting By Gerald Warfield

Professor Figwort Comes To An Understanding By Jacob Edwards

One One Thousand By William Wood

Doxies By Brandon Alspaugh

Conditional Perfect By Jason Palmer

By His Sacrifice By Daliso Chopanda

Wikihistory By Desmond Warzel

Written By The Winners By Matthew Johnson

Sunlight And Shadows By JW Schnarr And John Sunseri

Xmas By Douglas Hutcheson

Times Cruel Geometry By Mark Onspaugh

Kelmscott Manor: In The Attics By Lynn C. A. Gardner

Cast Of Contributors

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

The Holy Bible Ecclesiastes (ch. III, v. 1-8)

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.

Michichio Kaku, Wired Magazine, Aug. 2003

At that I understood. At the risk of disappointing Richardson I stayed on, waiting for The Time Traveler; waiting for the second, perhaps still stranger story, and the specimens and photographs he would bring with him. But I am beginning now to fear that I must wait a lifetime. The Time Traveler vanished three years ago. And, as everybody knows now, he has never returned.

Herbert George Wells, The Time Machine

by Paul J. Nahin

University of New Hampshire

It is so full of invention and the invention is so wonderfulit must certainly make your reputation.

- from a September 1894 letter to H. G. Wells from

the editor of the New Review , where The Time Machine

first appeared, in serial form, the following year

Could there be a reader of this book who hasnt read H.G. Wells masterpiece, The Time Machine , or seen the 1960 movie (with Rod Taylor as the Time Traveller) based on the novella? I very much doubt it, and so there is little I can say about the story itself that would be new. But what of Wells , the man himself? He offers me much fresher ground to plow; the scientific background of the man whose genius inspired the tales in this new anthology of time travel tales is a story not nearly so well known.

Wells great contribution with The Time Machine was to make the science part of science fiction important. He commented on this, himself, in the Preface to a 1934 collection ( Seven Famous Novels , Knopf). There he wrote that while all previous attempts at writing fantastic stories depended on magic or sleeping into the future as in Edward Bellamys Looking Backward (published in 1888), or traveling into the past via a knock on the head from a crowbar as in Mark Twains A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court , or by some other equally curious mechanism his did not: It occurred to me that instead of the usual interview with the devil or a magician, an ingenious use of scientific patter might with advantage be substituted. The scientific patter in The Time Machine is that of the fourth dimension.

The idea of time as the fourth dimension entered the popular mind in 1895 with the publication of the first of Wells scientific romances (his term; the modern term of science fiction was still decades in the future). Wells The Time Machine has never been out of print, and is now recognized as one of the modern classics of the English language. But it didnt arrive at the printer without some effort. Wells was at first uncertain on just how well he had done in presenting his revolutionary new work, and wrote to the editor at the New Review for an opinion on the opening chapter. Back came a letter (from which Ive taken the opening quotation), and no one who has read the Time Travelers story can doubt that Wells editor was right.

The novella opens with the Time Traveler (he is never named) expounding during a dinner party on a recondite matter to a group of his friends. As he asserts, There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it. When asked to say more about the fourth dimension, he replies It is simply this. That Space, as our mathematicians have it, is spoken of as having three dimensions, which one may call Length, Breadth, and Thickness, and it is always definable by reference to three planes, each at right angles to the others. But some philosophical people have been asking why three dimensions particularly why not another direction at right angles to the other three? and have even tried to construct a Four-Dimensional geometry. Professor Simon Newcomb [a Canadian-born American mathematician and astronomer who was quite famous at the time] was expounding this to the New York Mathematical Society only a month ago.