Saturday 13 July 2024

The Time Traveller's Successors

HG Wells' Time Traveller is definitely the literary precursor of:

Poul Anderson's Time Patrolmen who time travel seated on timecycles;

Anderson's Jack Havig who sees events speeding past him as he time travels;

Anderson's Martin Saunders who travels into the far future;

Anderson's Wardens and Rangers who walk or drive along corridors rotated onto the temporal dimension;

James Blish's Service agents who discuss time as a fourth dimension but communicate instead of travelling along it;

Blish's John Martels who is projected into a far future perpetual summer;

the Doctor in the Doctor Who TV series, an eccentric scientist, whose Daleks and Thals somewhat resemble Morlocks and Eloi.

Read or reread The Time Machine.

3 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

You forgot THE DANCER FROM ATLANTIS.

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paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,

I didn't forget DANCER. I just didn't see a direct link with the Time Traveller, other than being a time traveller, of course.

Paul.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Got it. Albeit I thought you would comment on how DANCER uses a kind of flying time machine.

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