Stephen Baxter

The Time Ships


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      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 1995

      Copyright © Stephen Baxter 1995

      Illustrations © Les Edwards

      Cover design by Mike Topping © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2016

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      Source ISBN: 9780008134549

      Ebook Edition © JULY 2014 ISBN: 9780007397549

      Version 2019-10-28

       Dedication

       To my wife Sandra,

       and the memory of H.G.

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Editor’s Note

       Prologue

       Book One: Dark Night

       Chapter 1: Time Travelling

       Chapter 2: A New Vision

       Chapter 3: In Obscurity

       Chapter 4: The Dark Night

       Chapter 5: The Well

       Chapter 6: My Encounter With the Morlocks

       Chapter 7: The Cage of Light

       Chapter 8: A Visitor

       Chapter 9: Revelations and Remonstrances

       Chapter 10: A Dialogue With a Morlock

       Chapter 11: Out of the Cage

       Chapter 12: The Morlocks of the Sphere

       Chapter 13: How the Morlocks Lived

       Chapter 14: Constructions and Divergences

       Chapter 15: Life and Death Among the Morlocks

       Chapter 16: Decision and Departure

       Chapter 17: In the Interior

       Chapter 18: The New Eloi