18 Results with the "Science Fiction" genre
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“I told some of you last Thursday of the principles of the Time Machine, and showed you the actual thing itself, incomplete in the workshop. There it is now, a little travel-worn, truly; and one of the ivory bars is cracked, and a brass rail bent; but the rest of it’s sound enough. I expected to finish it on Friday, but on Friday, when the putting together was nearly done, I found that one of the nickel bars was exactly one inch too short, and this I had to get remade; so that the thing was not…-
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I think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time Machine. The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness. Had Filby shown the model and explained the matter in the Time Traveller’s words, we should have shown him far less scepticism. For we should have perceived his motives; a pork butcher could understand Filby.…-
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Chapter 1
The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. The fire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses. Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon, and there was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere when thought…-
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The Last Train to Orion
On the final passenger service beyond the solar system, a station engineer receives a message from a platform that does not exist.-
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02 — A Seat by the Window
Platform Zero lay behind a maintenance hatch that had always opened onto a cupboard. Tonight it opened onto snow. Not simulated snow, not coolant crystals, but the soft, imperfect kind Jun remembered from Earth.A silver carriage waited beside a wooden bench. Its windows glowed with lamplight. A conductor in an old blue coat inspected Jun's ticket without asking where he had found it.'Is this a rescue?' Jun asked.'That depends on who you are looking for.'Inside were six passengers,…-
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01 — Platform Zero
At 03:17 station time, a train appeared on the departures board that Jun had personally disconnected. Its destination was Orion. Its platform was zero. Its departure time was yesterday.Jun put down his coffee. Beyond the observation glass, Jupiter turned in its sleep, enormous and indifferent. The last scheduled passenger service had left two hours earlier. In four days the station would be dismantled. He had already packed his tools.The public address system cleared its throat. 'Passenger Jun Vale,…-
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