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Chapter 12
“So I came back. For a long time I must have been insensible upon the machine. The blinking succession of the days and nights was resumed, the sun got golden again, the sky blue. I breathed with greater freedom. The fluctuating contours of the land ebbed and flowed. The hands spun backward upon the dials. At last I saw again the dim shadows of houses, the evidences of decadent humanity. These, too, changed and passed, and others came. Presently, when the million dial was at zero, I slackened speed. I…-
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Chapter 11
“I have already told you of the sickness and confusion that comes with time travelling. And this time I was not seated properly in the saddle, but sideways and in an unstable fashion. For an indefinite time I clung to the machine as it swayed and vibrated, quite unheeding how I went, and when I brought myself to look at the dials again I was amazed to find where I had arrived. One dial records days, and another thousands of days, another millions of days, and another thousands of millions. Now, instead…-
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Chapter 10
“About eight or nine in the morning I came to the same seat of yellow metal from which I had viewed the world upon the evening of my arrival. I thought of my hasty conclusions upon that evening and could not refrain from laughing bitterly at my confidence. Here was the same beautiful scene, the same abundant foliage, the same splendid palaces and magnificent ruins, the same silver river running between its fertile banks. The gay robes of the beautiful people moved hither and thither among the trees. Some…-
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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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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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