With the aid of the Plattnerite, the Time Traveller sets off into the future and stops in 657,208, when the daytime sky has gone permanently dark. There are further references to these beings later in this novel. When lit, the powder violently launches him into a mysterious parallel dimension, where he is observed by mute "Watchers of the Living". Published in a collection in 1897, the story is about a school teacher, "Gottfried Plattner" who chemically analyses a green powder of uncertain origin which had been given him by his students.
Incidentally, Stephen Baxter has coined this word using the name of a character in one of Wells's short stories entitled "The Plattner Story".
We learn that the time machine had been constructed from quartz, and fuelled by a radioactive substance called "Plattnerite", which had been given to the traveller by an unknown and mysterious benefactor, twenty years earlier. The novel starts where the original left off, in 1891, with "the Time Traveller" preparing to return to the year 802,701 to save Weena, the young female Eloi who died in the fire with the Morlocks, a fact for which he had felt guilty and responsible ever since. It is an ambitious project and an exciting read in its own right. The Time Ships went on to win several prestigious SF awards, including the British Science Fiction award for that year. Wells's novel "The Time Machine", the Wells' estate authorised an official sequel by Stephen Baxter. The odds are a trillion to one against him.In 1995, a hundred years after H.G. Battling national sabotage and international outcry, as apocalyptic riots sweep the globe, he builds a spacecraft and launches it into deep space. Now Malenfant gambles the very existence of time on a single desperate throw of the dice. That man, Reid Malenfant, has a very different solution to the problems plaguing the planet: the exploration and colonization of space. As the world?s governments turn inward, one man dares to envision a bolder, brighter future. More than a century of ecological damage, industrial and technological expansion, and unchecked population growth has left the Earth on the brink of devastation. Read Or Download Time (Manifold #1) By Stephen Baxter Full Pages.
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