the time machine great illustrated classics

The extinction of pest animals, predators, insects, and a large portion of bacteria and fungi, is portrayed as a positive achievement of mankind, and overall a betterment of the planet.How soil nutrients are replenished in the absence of normal decomposition is never explained.Even then, new diseases would always crop up over the eons. Modern medicine has since recognized the development of immunity in bacteria and viruses, and the eradication of all disease seems all but impossible. In the future, all diseases have been eradicated, along with, apparently, the vast majority of bacteria and fungi promoting decay.Addressed in Stephen Baxter's officially licensed sequel novel, The Time Ships, which posits the theory that the Sun going Red Giant billions of years ahead of schedule was due to accidental tampering done before the Human race devolved into the Eloi and Morlocks.

The Time Traveler witnesses the Sun enter the Red Giant phase in only a few million years.

Upon arrival he winds up getting drugged and interrogated as it’s assumed he’s a spy, and when that gets cleared up he’s informed of the Cold War and one of his captors attempts to seize his machine when their enemy attacks once again, and he brains his attacker with a loose lever before escaping into the future again, with nothing to show for his efforts.

In an even more extreme example, a whole chapter titled 'The Golden Age of Science', depicting a cold war in a technologically advanced future (and possibly the beginning of the Eloi-Morlock genesis) was written in the Great Illustrated Classics version in a vain attempt to try to bring something, anything back from the future, the Time Traveler makes one last stop 200 years ahead of his home time, in a setting that he considered the Golden Age of Science.

This chapter is generally not included in modern publications of the story.

The author was forced to write and include an extra chapter, entitled 'The Grey Man' to lengthen the story.

The section of text that was taken out from the book was suggested by Wells’ editor William Ernest Henley who wanted Wells to 'oblige your editor' by lengthening the text with, among other things, an illustration of 'the ultimate degeneracy' of humanity.

A popular nickname for the section is 'The Grey Man'. Certain time travel story anthologies tend to include it, though.

Deleted Text: A section from the eleventh chapter of the serial published in New Review was removed from the book.Creator Backlash: In 1931, Wells stated that the book was 'a very undergraduate performance to its now mature writer, as he looks over it once more'.

The time machine great illustrated classics