The Time Machine: Inspector Spacetime (Part 1 of 2)

Fictional

Jason Weiser

Arts, History, Books

4.9 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

"The Time Machine" is a book written by the father of science fiction, H.G. Wells. This is a book so famous that it actually coined the phrase "time machine" to refer to a machine that travels through time. It is a short but sprawling book, flinging mankind into the farthest future where we see how the consequences of our actions today can affect the world for millennia. It still holds up, too. It's a little more plot- and concept-heavy than today's novels, but it's a fascinating story full of interesting twists.

The villain this time is neither fascinating nor full of twists. He's a one-note idiot obsessed with returning to a past that never was.

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Additional music by Breakmaster Cylinder

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0:00.0	Like any great party, this one began with a bunch of Victorian British guys talking about
0:08.2	geometry.
0:09.7	More specifically, how geometry is wrong.
0:13.1	They were all there, the medical doctor, the provincial mayor, the psychologist and
0:17.0	more.
0:18.0	It was a veritable who's who of stock 1800s characters, off which the host could bounce
0:22.2	his fanciful notions and Byzantine theories.
0:25.5	It began as a discussion of basic geometry, but then somehow it devolved into philosophical
0:31.3	musings of traveling through time.
0:34.1	They all had theories, but the man they, in the story called the Time Traveler, had the
0:39.8	strongest and most defined thoughts in the matter.
0:43.2	No surprise there.
0:44.2	It took everyone a bit of time to wrap their minds around it all, but the Time Traveler's
0:48.4	logic was sound.
0:50.1	They had learned to fight other natural edicts that could defy gravity by riding under
0:53.8	a balloon, after all.
0:55.5	Why couldn't they come to defy the natural flow of time in the same way?
0:59.5	I mean, yeah, but there are so many more questions that need to be answered before we could
1:04.0	even approach building out.
1:05.5	Oh, you're coming back with a machine.
1:07.4	Oh, you already built it.
1:09.8	Said Philby, the only named character in the scene.
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