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The Time Ships
Stephen Baxter
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.
Copyright (#u89a1a889-5bb8-5483-8e1e-1f9d8e25274b)
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 1995
Copyright © Stephen Baxter 1995
Illustrations © Les Edwards
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Dedication (#u89a1a889-5bb8-5483-8e1e-1f9d8e25274b)
To my wife Sandra,
and the memory of H.G.
Table of Contents
Cover (#u3433d589-4b4b-54d2-84f3-e3eba3ef9144)
Title Page (#ufa17869e-c278-568b-9a64-07d8da1901fc)
Copyright (#u97de0b93-7cd2-5be7-9464-74baa532e576)
Dedication (#u749580d4-c402-5e67-bcfa-7e62b7dca162)
Editor’s Note (#uae352f49-af35-540e-a41a-423b6d156749)
Prologue (#u7023e83e-a64c-503c-b09a-a86adba540d1)
Book One: Dark Night (#u40e2a0e6-44c9-5c3b-906f-cbc82aa7ba40)
Chapter 1: Time Travelling (#u020124b7-47fa-5a8f-a0ac-763a63b90ede)
Chapter 2: A New Vision (#u611d0644-65b8-5221-a3ce-083af646f6ee)
Chapter 3: In Obscurity (#u1c90c67d-2017-5375-988f-5aa04c07a438)
Chapter 4: The Dark Night (#ucfb5a282-98a9-5d6c-b8de-843994c58c89)
Chapter 5: The Well (#u761ab243-eb20-5e36-92be-b00ad7e59071)
Chapter 6: My Encounter With the Morlocks (#u2350a208-599c-5d98-9488-92cb5c50aa53)
Chapter 7: The Cage of Light (#ud156d2e2-39ae-56d1-8671-f991544df889)
Chapter 8: A Visitor (#ue6ce2cb8-69be-585d-ad4e-d606e189b7e1)
Chapter 9: Revelations and Remonstrances (#ub3efb2bb-c3e8-50cc-910d-1f6b3b3f6032)
Chapter 10: A Dialogue With a Morlock (#u4009c05d-a2a0-52b6-950c-cf90c58618a4)
Chapter 11: Out of the Cage (#u99d38a2e-5d27-5023-9d6c-74a22954edb4)
Chapter 12: The Morlocks of the Sphere (#ue543f41d-3537-542d-b42e-ccd30fd236dd)
Chapter 13: How the Morlocks Lived (#u9d137c64-74de-5262-bf84-7b6fb080765d)
Chapter 14: Constructions and Divergences (#u6595cb9e-1085-5415-baa4-820eb3dde137)
Chapter 15: Life and Death Among the Morlocks (#ucba899f1-f281-5b18-a2d3-a5a7dc30a59f)
Chapter 16: Decision and Departure (#uaa865827-0768-5b33-a435-444db3f94aba)
Chapter 17: In the Interior (#u11d63299-9e16-548f-9a0c-9c093e3df71e)
Chapter 18: The New Eloi (#ub7992aba-62ff-5b3e-974d-6d04adebb463)
Chapter 19: How I Crossed Inter-Planetary Space (#ue4f3586c-3d3c-5c18-85de-10c23c5a109a)
Chapter 20: My Account of the Far Future (#u1a272dfd-61d1-551a-b442-451eef2a8ebd)
Chapter 21: On Richmond Hill (#ue0b8007b-e26f-5b6f-b681-3986e4ff4dd4)
Chapter 22: Rotations and Deceptions (#u3b714718-51e3-517d-aa50-7e0b8aa7c6fa)
Book Two: Paradox (#u831b9c23-a28e-5ff5-8873-5d22708ab893)
Chapter 1: The Chronic Argo (#u51d9a231-f186-5962-82c2-ca7369c04874)
Chapter 2: Home (#u6df1d5af-99b4-5d84-99a0-bf92298c61b3)
Chapter 3: Moses (#u5dfdf810-ef0d-5180-8cee-1024eb91f328)
Chapter 4: The Experiment (#ud5a2903b-f2af-5f1c-9383-96131106420d)
Chapter 5: Honesty and Doubt (#u1424c1e3-00db-5b9f-be4f-6ebc94287957)
Chapter 6: Persuasion and Scepticism (#u02a8b3a4-d587-516f-80ce-41dab5574b4a)
Chapter 7: The Juggernaut Lord Raglan (#uf9523f18-ff55-5bcb-8dc7-fdf65b67c084)
Chapter 8: Old Acquaintance Renewed (#ua2a13686-2e2e-5f83-bcca-d0253fba4d45)
Chapter 9: Into Time (#ufb794adf-ceb6-53b2-ac4a-e2dbe755fd89)
Book Three: The War With the Germans (#u50577df4-c437-5980-94f3-7fd894a94f11)
Chapter 1: A New Vision of Richmond (#u3dd37033-890c-57f4-bd3a-b62ee49d370e)
Chapter 2: A Train Journey (#uac357047-c15b-5c3f-8f6a-9855b211adf2)
Chapter 3: London at War (#uddc9b6d8-ff54-5f10-8e4c-d80fd947ce72)
Chapter 4: The House in Queen’s Gate Terrace (#ucfd8acb1-bd74-5768-9c51-35af9dbbd877)
Chapter 5: The Many Worlds Interpretation (#uf256510d-5cec-59ca-a858-83b55e84a805)
Chapter 6: Hyde Park (#u2ed708eb-9313-539e-a4d4-e99ff1f325ad)
Chapter 7: The Babble Machine (#ub49e57c5-d406-52d5-bfb9-2732e5b21a41)
Chapter 8: The Uplands of the Future (#u46e3ac68-fb33-5ac3-8058-44c7c888363a)
Chapter 9: Imperial College (#u3cefc070-bc46-592d-9fa6-668c744dc5d0)
Chapter 10: Professor Gödel (#u10fbbddd-5522-5713-b7a3-b0930ff7f8c4)
Chapter 11: The New World Order (#u1dc504a2-60d6-5692-9b9e-d2301b6be4f1)
Chapter 12: The German Assault on London (#u6e68bae2-cb6f-5710-8cf2-198d95b00221)
Chapter 13: The Shelling (#ua8f32ef3-4d86-57a7-8f91-5471112d4b5f)
Chapter 14: The Rota-Mine (#u3314edaf-c24b-5d03-bcd1-5b813ff5f64e)
Chapter 15: The Time-Car (#u737a5082-ac9b-518d-b582-9c585dbe18df)
Chapter 16: Falling Into Time (#u01f19078-3930-57dd-bda9-53dd920de7a5)
Chapter 17: The Watcher (#u7db701e9-ef19-56cb-8be0-7c9541ca8b38)
Book Four: The Palaeocene Sea (#uf5db7883-e213-5d1f-b90f-df2488870a5b)
Chapter 1: Diatryma Gigantica (#u6105526d-73d8-5ed6-be71-991b39e91a03)
Chapter 2: The Palaeocene Sea (#ud83bc10c-71a5-5a61-853b-15600fa3d62c)
Chapter 3: How We Lived (#ue37edc8b-5b39-5357-80d4-b765d2117d5d)
Chapter 4: Illness and Recuperation (#u54d58116-f7d6-54d9-bbb8-4912a8a24e9a)
Chapter 5: The Storm (#u0d4d559d-904e-5221-a11f-6fe02bd3e81f)
Chapter 6: Heart and Body (#u577b075e-5c44-5a5b-b2be-b58dda3cc95f)
Chapter 7: Pristichampus (#uf33516c5-85b2-5230-b4eb-056f940b183e)
Chapter 8: The Encampment (#u99c02d8b-39fe-538d-8b3b-2cfb42c59b55)
Chapter 9: The Chronic Expeditionary Force (#ua12671bf-952a-50d1-8387-eafb4b705193)
Chapter 10: The Apparition (#u3f911d22-1944-514a-b6a9-ac0e2de9bd41)
Chapter 11: The Bomb (#u419f8fd6-aa23-598e-84ab-18a36da02912)
Chapter 12: The Aftermath of the Bombing (#ud5455628-9856-5c7e-911e-3304857792ac)
Chapter 13: Bond’s Account (#u65ba035d-2ed5-51ca-8036-b1e2a900f369)
Chapter 14: Survivors (#u27563a2f-c6a0-5394-9578-83e01e799561)
Chapter 15: A New Settlement (#u23cff64f-1acf-5a54-a56b-a8e13889328f)
Chapter 16: The Establishment of First London (#u6087b264-5107-5a49-a0f4-dbf7e2e32c27)
Chapter 17: Children and Descendants (#u7b586270-d4b0-5af7-8697-f87e6ea97821)
Chapter 18: The Feast, and Later (#u4f726765-6ea5-57be-9cc4-44547c77a547)
