There are other parallels. The Time Traveler's dinner guests discuss observing the Battle of Hastings whereas Anderson's Time Patrolmen, their timecycles resembling updated, mass-produced Time Machines, intervene in the Battles of Ticinus and Regnano. The Time Traveler finds humanity devolved into Morlocks and Eloi whereas the Time Patrol is founded by the Danellians who will evolve, not devolve, from humanity. Anderson's The Corridors Of Time treats time as a fourth dimension as does the Time Traveler's theory if not also his practice.
Anderson's We Claim These Stars has taken us in one direction to The Time Machine and in another to Ian Fleming's Thunderball. Tomorrow we will probably return to the text of We Claim These Stars.
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Kaor, Paul!
Anderson also wrote at least one other Wellsian story, THE WAR OF TWO WORLDS, in which he shows us a very different war between Mars and Earth from what we see in Wells' WAR OF THE WORLDS. Frankly, I thought Anderson's story to be better than Wells.
Ad astra! Sean
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