The Time Machine story
A Victorian English scientist and gentleman builds a time machine and uses it to travel into the distant future.
9 total · 3 choice · 4 major · 2 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| the future of human evolution | choice | By the year 802,701 AD, the human race had differentiated into two distinct species: the small, elegant, childlike Eloi, and the ape-like troglodyte Morlocks who live in darkness underground and surface only at night. |
| time machine | choice | The Time Traveler constructed a vehicle that he used to travel to the year 802,701 AD. |
| time travel | choice | The Time Traveler constructed a vehicle that he used to travel to the year 802,701 AD. |
| atrophied civilization | major | The Eloi were childlike adults who lived in small communities within large and futuristic yet slowly deteriorating buildings. |
| multi-species civilization | major | The Morlocks and Eloi inherited the Earth. |
| social inequality | major | The Time Traveler speculated that social stratification had resulted in the human race differentiating into two distinct species. In particular, he speculated that the leisured classes had become the ineffectual Eloi, and the downtrodden working classes had become the brutal light-fearing Morlocks. |
| what if I could never go home | major | The Time Traveler found himself trapped in the year 802,701 AD after the Morlocks took possession of his time machine. |
| four-dimensional space | minor | The Time Traveler briefly recapitulated Simon Newcomb's attempt to construct a mathematical theory of 4D space. |
| utopia | minor | The Time Traveler initially saw the toiless Eloi society as utopian, but later came to see things differently. |