The Time Machine And The Time Patrol

See A Wellsian Time Patrol.

Continuity and contrast:

a single short novel as against a series filling two long volumes;

a single Time Traveller, and Machine, disappearing at the end of the narrative as against an organization spanning a million years;

two well realized future periods as against many well realized historical periods;

vivid descriptions of events flashing past as against instantaneous space-time jumps;

hints at paradoxes as against their subtle elaboration;

a casual conversation about observing the Battle of Hastings as against organized interventions in the Battles of Ticinus and Regnano;

invention of a Time Machine in the nineteenth century as against time travelers arriving from later than 19352 A.D.;

Morlocks and Eloi as against Danellians - thus, devolution as against evolution;

a beginning and a culmination of time travel fiction.