Poul Anderson's Wardens and Rangers, having divided mankind into two hostile urban/technological and rural/"natural" camps, rotate corridors onto the temporal axis and wage their wars in the past although their successors will build a harmonious civilization.
Thus, both Wells and Anderson explore different narrative implications of time as a fourth dimension and address the issue of the future relationship of mankind with its environment.
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Kaor, Paul!
I never did find Wells Morlocks and Eloi all that convincing! Even tho these terms do make for useful archetypes. I don't think actually degenerate human beings will "de-evolve" as simplistically as did the Morlocks/Eloi.
Sean
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