Color And Contrast

The Time Machine and "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth" are contrasting, but equally colorful, accounts of journeys to other periods.

In AD 802,701, the Time Traveler meets Eloi who are threatened by Morlocks whereas, in AD 300-372, Carl Farness visits Goths who are threatened by Vandals and Huns.

Each of these texts also describes other periods:

Wells
dinner parties in the late nineteenth century
the future flashing past the Time Machine
the Further Vision

Anderson
New York in the 1930s
Everard''s apartment in 1980
Berlin in 1858
Hawaii in 43

Anderson elaborates the paradoxes that Wells merely implies. Read Wells, then Anderson.