The Time Machine (Paperback)
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Writing King, 2026
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Paperback. A Victorian scientist builds a time machine not out of curiosity but because his wife is dying of smallpox and he believes the future holds a cure. He finds it. Then he keeps going, because he cannot bring himself to face the moment he has to return to.What follows is a journey through five hundred million years of scientifically grounded future. A world war witnessed from the streets. Hiroshima, one week after. The slow drowning of coastlines. The engineering responses humanity attempts and partially achieves. The gradual thinning of human presence across the planet as language drifts, biology shifts, and civilization makes choices that leave the Earth quieter with each passing millennium. The departure of humanity to the stars, carrying nothing the traveler would recognize. And at the end of everything, a monument built by a civilization that left before he arrived, patient and vast and willing to engage with the strange Victorian gentleman who has appeared out of nowhere with a theory about time and a cure in his pocket.The monument tells him that returning to the past is impossible. That any change to what has already happened, even the movement of a single air molecule, destroys the universe and rebuilds it without the traveler in it. He argues the many-worlds interpretation. The monument is not convinced but gives him the cure anyway, to humor him. He goes back. The universe does not end. It branches. His wife lives in one timeline. He carries the memory of both.Inspired by H.G. Wells's 1895 classic but rebuilt from the foundation, The Time Machine: The Cure replaces Wells's Eloi and Morlock class allegory with a story driven by grief, deep time science, and the most human of questions: what would you risk, and what would you become, to save the person you loved most? Every stop is grounded in actual climate science, biology, geology, solar physics, and cosmology. The Traveller is no longer a hobbyist demonstrating a parlor invention. He is a man who built the machine because she was dying and he thought he could outrun it.The Victorian Era Series. The Writing King. Literary fiction. Inspired by The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, serialized 1895 A brilliant scientist, desperate to save his dying wife, shatters the temporal barrier. He finds a cure in the distant future but is warned that returning is impossible. Driven by love and grief, he journeys through the future. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
N° de ref. del artículo 9781972810576
- Título
- The Time Machine (Paperback)
- Autor
- Richard Lowe
- Editorial
- Writing King
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 197281057X
- ISBN 13
- 9781972810576
A Victorian scientist builds a time machine not out of curiosity but because his wife is dying of smallpox and he believes the future holds a cure. He finds it. Then he keeps going, because he cannot bring himself to face the moment he has to return to.
What follows is a journey through five hundred million years of scientifically grounded future. A world war witnessed from the streets. Hiroshima, one week after. The slow drowning of coastlines. The engineering responses humanity attempts and partially achieves. The gradual thinning of human presence across the planet as language drifts, biology shifts, and civilization makes choices that leave the Earth quieter with each passing millennium. The departure of humanity to the stars, carrying nothing the traveler would recognize. And at the end of everything, a monument built by a civilization that left before he arrived, patient and vast and willing to engage with the strange Victorian gentleman who has appeared out of nowhere with a theory about time and a cure in his pocket.
The monument tells him that returning to the past is impossible. That any change to what has already happened, even the movement of a single air molecule, destroys the universe and rebuilds it without the traveler in it. He argues the many-worlds interpretation. The monument is not convinced but gives him the cure anyway, to humor him. He goes back. The universe does not end. It branches. His wife lives in one timeline. He carries the memory of both.
Inspired by H.G. Wells's 1895 classic but rebuilt from the foundation, The Time Machine: The Cure replaces Wells's Eloi and Morlock class allegory with a story driven by grief, deep time science, and the most human of questions: what would you risk, and what would you become, to save the person you loved most? Every stop is grounded in actual climate science, biology, geology, solar physics, and cosmology. The Traveller is no longer a hobbyist demonstrating a parlor invention. He is a man who built the machine because she was dying and he thought he could outrun it.
The Victorian Era Series. The Writing King. Literary fiction. Inspired by The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, serialized 1895
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